Trauma and mythologies of the Old West in the Western novels of Cormac McCarthy
This thesis explores how McCarthy uses figures of trauma to interrogate the creation of myth in three categories: mythic narrative, mythic masculinity, and mythic national identity. Focusing on McCarthy’s five most recent novels, All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain, No Country f...
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University of Manchester
2013
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.607121 |