Cormac McCarthy’s Aesthet(h)ics of the “Canal-Rhizome” in Suttree

This essay interprets Suttree’s (1979) obsessional themes of vagrancy and in-betweenness, and their aesthetic inscription in the text by resorting to Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s motif of the “canal-rhizome” as developed in Mille plateaux (1980). Close textual analysis reveals that, in parall...

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Main Author: Marie-Agnès Gay
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Association for American Studies 2017-12-01
Series:European Journal of American Studies
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/12372