Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.5325/cormmccaj.20.1.0065
F. Bellini
“The work is everything,” says Ben, the main character of McCarthy's play The Stonemason, summing up his grandfather Papaw's view of the craft of the stonemason as the ground of beauty, justice, and truth. Judging from McCarthy's inclination to indulge in extended descriptions of all sorts of labors and crafts he must, at least in part, agree with his character. As has been noted elsewhere, craftsmanship is a privileged theme in Cormac McCarthy's oeuvre, and the available archival material proves that the author has always been meticulous in gathering information about the crafts he has set himself to describe, undertaking extensive bibliographical research in all technical aspects and at times seeking help from specialist advisers. Relying on some manuscripts and letters held at the Wittliff Collections in San Marcos, Texas, this article investigates the way McCarthy collaborated with two specialist medical advisers, Dr. Oren Ellis and Dr. Barry King, in the writing of a scene of his novel The Crossing. The intention is to provide insight into McCarthy's creative process and to further understand the way descriptions of crafts integrate within his overall poetics in what can be defined as an attempt to oversaturate the representation of reality.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.5325/cormmccaj.20.1.0002
J. Vanderheide
abstract:Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian is prefaced by an epigraph from seventeenth-century German philosopher and theologian Jacob Boehme and the last chapter heading of the novel is a quotation in German that references as many as three other famous figures in German literature, including twentieth-century writer Thomas Mann. This article investigates the significance of this framing of the novel by Germanic writing. With close readings of Mann and Boehme in particular, I argue that what McCarthy takes from these writers is a dualistic or double-voiced aesthetic that allows him to present to the reader the antithetical sides of America's Germanic or Teutonic heritage, allowing them to render their judgment of it. In Blood Meridian, the historical legacy of American Anglo-Saxonism is ostentatiously evident in the narrative of Indigenous genocide, but so too are divergent or opposing aesthetic and theological legacies of German culture. This includes McCarthy's borrowing of Germanic allegorical techniques, which precipitate out of the narrative material a distinct if obscure meaning that permeates the narrative without controlling or containing it. The Germanic element in Blood Meridian thus speaks to some of the most important of the novel's aesthetic, political, and theological concerns.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.5325/cormmccaj.20.1.0023
B. Schill
abstract:Overlaying Michel Foucault's early "archaeological" works—The Order of Things, The Archaeology of Knowledge—with Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian reveals remarkable similarities between not only Foucault and the historical and fictional versions of Judge Holden, but McCarthy and Foucault as historiographers of the West's senescence. Building on Michael Lynn Crews's demonstration that McCarthy was reading Foucault during the drafting of his "western," this article posits that McCarthy was also grappling with Foucault's justification and expansion of the neoliberal economics that was then emerging in the West, in the United States in particular, by embedding Foucault's thought (and in some ways the thinker himself) in his novel in a critical way. In so doing, McCarthy one-upped the philosopher, showing readers how Foucault's late economics were problematic both on their own terms and likely contributed to the very "End of Man" that Foucault seemed to be anticipating with glee and that made its way into several of McCarthy's late novels.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.5325/cormmccaj.20.1.0044
Trevor A. Jackson
abstract:This article examines the case of modernity (as an enclosing device) and the impact its pervasive epistemological assumptions have on its subjects. In particular, I propose several heavily freighted examples from Cormac McCarthy's Child of God in order to foreground the ways in which the central character Lester Ballard's ideas arise from the social circumstances out of which he comes and from which he takes his cues. To do so, this article first contextualizes modernity and its system of social and official recursiveness where authenticity is compromised before moving to specific scenes from the novel. It examines three incidents of Ballard's actions, including his encounters with and encouragement by the legal system, his performances of hypermasculinity and the endorsement of rape culture, and his voyeurism before returning to the two accusatory quotations where the novel addresses the reader to clarify the position of our social responsibility.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.5325/cormmccaj.20.1.0078
B. Giemza
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Pub Date : 2021-10-16DOI: 10.5325/cormmccaj.19.2.0138
J. Elmore, Rick Elmore
abstract:Forty years after publication, Suttree remains McCarthy's most enigmatic novel. The one consistent element of what is by now an expansive body of scholarship is an agreement regarding the centrality of the title character. Yet while critics agree Suttree is the key to Suttree, there exists little agreement about the larger message of the novel. Against this confusion, we argue that it is a quest to reconcile his sense of self and understanding of life that drives Suttree's actions throughout the novel, this quest illuminating not only McCarthy's well-documented critique of Western culture but, more importantly, his own alternative conception of life, this alternative an egalitarian vision of society that brings to light the novel's ethical imperative.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-16DOI: 10.5325/cormmccaj.19.2.0109
D. M. Decoste
abstract:While critics have remarked how The Sunset Limited stresses White's identity as a professor, they have had little to say regarding what this fact and White's suicidal longing reveal concerning McCarthy's view of the contemporary university. This article fills this gap by scrutinizing White's death wish through the lens of the academy's engagement with virtue. Drawing upon John Henry Newman's understanding of the relationship between the university and character formation, as well as traditional formulations of classical and Christian virtues, I show how White's arguments in favor of self-annihilation are grounded in an education lacking any pursuit of virtue of either kind. Representative of the modern academy, White has located all value not in an ethical consideration of how to be a good man in community with others, but in the artistic achievements of humanity; his vocation has concerned itself with aesthetics at the expense of virtue. Divorced especially from the theological virtues, the education White professes darkness by combining intellectual pride with moral skepticism in such a way as to subvert human solidarity, individual purpose, and indeed the project of the university itself.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-16DOI: 10.5325/cormmccaj.19.2.0203
Peter. Josyph
abstract:Peter Josyph considers McCarthy's most recent work, a nonfiction essay titled "The Kekulé Problem" and published in Nautilus in 2017. He reads it as a kind of memoir, "notes of a mental traveller," and more revealing of direct personal experience than any of McCarthy's writing to date. Josyph considers the background of the story about the German chemist Frederich August von Kekulé that's at the heart of the essay and how McCarthy engages with the ideas it presents.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-16DOI: 10.5325/cormmccaj.19.2.0157
Favero
abstract:This article engages debate on how Cormac McCarthy's novel No Country for Old Men (2005) grapples with what it means to live a life of courage in the face of existential threats by exploring the motives behind key moral choices made by main characters Anton Chigurh and Ed Tom Bell. With support from Paul Tillich's 1952 book The Courage to Be, the article finds that the primary intention behind these characters' choices is to protect themselves against the existential anxiety of self-condemnation. This reading contests notions that Chigurh either has no sense of moral responsibility or aims to evade it, and that Bell's story is one of moral cowardice to the end, concluding that the author's vision meets challenges presented by overwhelming external forces rather than resigning to them. These results may serve future research about self-affirmation in McCarthy's work.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-16DOI: 10.5325/cormmccaj.19.2.0128
R. Russell
abstract:Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road contains at least one heretofore unrecognized likely allusion to Joyce's Ulysses: the father's description of his son as a "firedrake," which recalls Stephen Dedalus's appellation for a bright celestial body that he (misleadingly) claims appeared in the sky at Shakespeare's birth in the ninth episode of the novel, "Scylla and Charybdis," an event that his "adopted" father Leopold Bloom attempts to describe in pseudoscientific language in the seventeenth episode of the novel, "Ithaca." McCarthy has the boy's father use this archaic word, which traditionally has meant "dragon," to describe his son because he recognizes that his son is a spiritual shooting star and a potential future author who can narrate events morally as did Shakespeare and Joyce and even Stephen himself. Through apprehending his allusion to Joyce's novel, we gain a sense of both the boy's light-filled immanence in a line of sons going back to the original Son, Christ, and his emerging facility with narrative as author-in-the-making.
科马克·麦卡锡的小说《路》中至少有一个迄今为止未被发现的可能是对乔伊斯的《尤利西斯》的暗示:父亲将儿子描述为“火鸭”，这让人想起小说《锡拉与卡雷布迪斯》(Scylla and Charybdis)第九集中，斯蒂芬·迪达勒斯(Stephen Dedalus)对一个明亮天体的称呼，他(误导地)声称这个天体在莎士比亚出生时出现在天空中，而他的“收养”父亲利奥波德·布鲁姆(Leopold Bloom)在小说《伊萨卡》(Ithaca)第十七集中试图用伪科学的语言描述这一事件。麦卡锡让男孩的父亲用这个古老的词来形容他的儿子，这个词在传统上是“龙”的意思，因为他意识到他的儿子是一颗精神上的流星，是一个潜在的未来作家，他可以像莎士比亚和乔伊斯一样，甚至像斯蒂芬自己一样，从道德上叙述事件。通过理解他对乔伊斯小说的暗示，我们可以感受到这个男孩在一系列儿子中充满光明的内在性，这些儿子可以追溯到最初的儿子，基督，以及他作为一个正在成长的作家的叙事能力。
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