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On the Germanic Element in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian 论科马克·麦卡锡《血子午线》中的日耳曼元素
Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 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.
科马克·麦卡锡的《血色子午线》以一段17世纪德国哲学家和神学家雅各布·伯默的题词作为序言,小说最后一章的标题引用了德国文学中其他三位著名人物的名言,其中包括20世纪作家托马斯·曼。本文探讨了日耳曼人写作对小说框架的影响。通过仔细阅读曼恩和伯梅的作品,我认为麦卡锡从这些作家那里获得的是一种二元或双重的审美,这使他能够向读者呈现美国日耳曼或日耳曼遗产的对立方面,让他们能够做出自己的判断。在《血色子午线》中,美国盎格鲁-撒克逊主义的历史遗产在对土著种族灭绝的叙述中得到了明显的炫耀,但德国文化的美学和神学遗产也存在分歧或对立。这包括麦卡锡对日耳曼寓言技巧的借用,这种技巧从叙事材料中沉淀出一种独特而模糊的含义,这种含义渗透到叙事中,而不控制或包含叙事。因此,《血色子午线》中的日耳曼元素反映了小说中一些最重要的美学、政治和神学问题。
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Cormac McCarthy's Poetics of Craftsmanship 科马克·麦卡锡的《工艺诗学》
Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 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.
“工作就是一切,”麦卡锡戏剧《石匠》(The Stonemason)的主角本(Ben)说,他总结了祖父对石匠技艺的看法,认为石匠技艺是美、正义和真理的基础。从麦卡锡沉迷于对各种劳动和工艺的冗长描述的倾向来看,他必须,至少在一定程度上,同意他的性格。正如在其他地方所指出的那样,工艺是科马克·麦卡锡作品中的一个特权主题,现有的档案材料证明,作者在收集有关他自己所描述的工艺的信息时总是一丝不苟,在所有技术方面进行了广泛的书目研究,有时还寻求专家顾问的帮助。本文以德克萨斯州圣马科斯维特利夫收藏的一些手稿和信件为依据,调查了麦卡锡在创作小说《十字路口》中的一个场景时,与两位专业医学顾问奥伦·埃利斯博士和巴里·金博士合作的方式。其目的是深入了解麦卡锡的创作过程,并进一步理解他的整体诗学中对工艺的描述方式,这种描述可以被定义为对现实的过度饱和表现的尝试。
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The Glanton Gang's Michel Foucault
Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 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.
将米歇尔·福柯早期的“考古学”著作《事物的秩序》、《知识的考古学》与科马克·麦卡锡的《血子子线》叠加在一起,不仅揭示了福柯与霍尔顿法官的历史和虚构版本之间的显著相似之处,也揭示了麦卡锡和福柯作为西方衰老的历史编纂者之间的显著相似之处。基于迈克尔·林恩·克鲁斯(Michael Lynn Crews)的论证,麦卡锡在起草《西方》(western)时阅读了福柯的著作,本文假设麦卡锡也在努力应对福柯对当时在西方,特别是在美国兴起的新自由主义经济学的辩护和扩张,他以一种批判的方式将福柯的思想(在某些方面也是思想家本人)嵌入到他的小说中。通过这样做,麦卡锡战胜了这位哲学家,向读者展示了福柯晚期的经济学是如何有问题的,既从他们自己的角度来看,也可能导致福柯似乎很高兴地预见到的“人类的终结”,这一点也出现在了麦卡锡后期的几部小说中。
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A Peculiar High Synthesis: Cormac McCarthy's Child of God and the Community-Created Other 一种特殊的高度综合:科马克·麦卡锡的《上帝之子》和《社区创造的他者》
Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 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.
本文考察了现代性(作为一种封闭手段)及其普遍存在的认识论假设对其主体的影响。特别是,我从科马克·麦卡锡的《上帝之子》中举出了几个重述的例子,以便突出中心人物莱斯特·巴拉德的思想是如何从他所处的社会环境中产生的,并从中获得线索。为了做到这一点,本文首先将现代性及其社会和官方递归系统置于语境中,在此真实性受到损害,然后再转移到小说中的具体场景。它考察了巴拉德行为的三件事,包括他与法律体系的接触和鼓励,他对超级男子气概的表现和对强奸文化的认可,以及他的偷窥癖,然后回到小说向读者澄清我们社会责任立场的两段指责性引文。
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Cormac McCarthy: A Complexity Theory of Literature 科马克·麦卡锡:文学的复杂性理论
Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.5325/cormmccaj.20.1.0078
B. Giemza
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引用次数: 1
Life, Unity, and Suffering: The Moral of Cormac McCarthy's Suttree 生命、团结与苦难:科马克·麦卡锡《苏特里》的寓意
Pub Date : 2021-10-16 DOI: 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.
出版四十年后,《萨特里》仍然是麦卡锡最神秘的小说。一个一致的元素,现在是一个庞大的学术机构,是关于标题人物的中心地位的协议。然而,尽管评论家们一致认为《萨特里》是《萨特里》的关键,但对于这部小说更大的意义,人们却意见不一。针对这种困惑,我们认为,正是为了调和他的自我意识和对生活的理解,推动了萨特里在整部小说中的行为,这种追求不仅阐明了麦卡锡对西方文化的充分批判,更重要的是,阐明了他自己对生活的另一种看法,这种社会平等主义的另一种看法,揭示了小说的伦理必要性。
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引用次数: 2
"A professor of darkness": Higher Education and the Annihilation of Virtue in Cormac McCarthy's The Sunset Limited “黑暗教授”:科马克·麦卡锡的《日落有限公司》中高等教育与美德的湮灭
Pub Date : 2021-10-16 DOI: 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.
虽然评论家们指出《日落有限》强调了怀特教授的身份,但对于这一事实和怀特自杀式的渴望揭示了麦卡锡对当代大学的看法,他们几乎没有什么可说的。这篇文章填补了这一空白,通过学院对美德的参与来审视怀特的死亡愿望。根据约翰·亨利·纽曼对大学与性格形成之间关系的理解,以及古典美德和基督教美德的传统表述,我展示了怀特支持自我毁灭的论点是如何建立在缺乏任何一种美德追求的教育基础上的。作为现代学院派的代表人物,怀特把所有的价值都放在人类的艺术成就上,而不是放在如何在社会中成为一个好人的伦理考虑上;他的职业是以牺牲美德为代价的美学。特别是与神学美德分离,怀特的教育通过将智力的骄傲与道德的怀疑结合在一起,以这样一种方式颠覆了人类的团结,个人的目的,甚至是大学本身的项目,来宣扬黑暗。
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A Few Nice Things and a Few Problems with "The Kekulé Problem" “凯库尔问题”的几个优点和几个问题
Pub Date : 2021-10-16 DOI: 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.
彼得·约瑟夫研究了麦卡锡的最新作品——2017年发表在《鹦鹉螺》杂志上的一篇非虚构文章《凯库尔问题》。他把它当作一种回忆录,“精神旅行者的笔记”,比麦卡锡迄今为止的任何作品都更能揭示直接的个人经历。约瑟夫思考了这篇文章的核心——德国化学家弗雷德里克·奥古斯特·冯·凯库尔的故事背景,以及麦卡锡是如何与文章所呈现的观点相结合的。
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Reconsidering Horses and Horsemanship in Blood Meridian and the Border Trilogy 再论《血子午线》和《边界》三部曲中的马匹和骑术
Pub Date : 2021-10-16 DOI: 10.5325/cormmccaj.19.2.0178
Sanborn
abstract:Horsemanship as Cormac McCarthy represents it in his novels of the border Southwest is a variable craft—horsemanship contingent upon the particular needs and practices of the horsemen in each work. In Blood Meridian, the scalphunters use horses as tools to aid in killing. In All the Pretty Horses, John Grady Cole's abilities with horses strain credulity as a nearly chimerical communicative experience exists between the working cowboy and his horses. In The Crossing, Billy and Boyd Parham, who are not professional cowboys, use horses as vehicles, and Billy's horsemanship rests upon an emotional bond to the Parham horses, a bond that is based upon his psychological and emotional ties to the horses. In Cities of the Plain, horsemanship returns to the horse as tool for both constructive utility and extermination, while the working cowboys use horses to eradicate a wild dog population in a bloody excursion that mirrors Blood Meridian and All the Pretty Horses. Thus, in Blood Meridian and the Border Trilogy, horsemanship is a gradation shaped by the means and purposes of the riders as well as the historical locus in which the works are set.
科马克·麦卡锡在他的西南边境小说中所表现的骑术是一种多变的工艺骑术,取决于每一部作品中骑手的特殊需要和实践。在《血色子午线》中,猎牛者用马作为辅助杀人的工具。在《骏马全集》中,约翰·格雷迪·科尔(John Grady Cole)驾驭马的能力打破了人们的轻信,因为在工作的牛仔和他的马之间存在着一种近乎虚幻的交流体验。在《十字路口》中,Billy和Boyd Parham都不是专业的牛仔,他们把马当作交通工具,Billy的骑术建立在他和Parham的马之间的情感纽带上,这种纽带是基于他和马之间的心理和情感纽带。在《平原之城》中,马术又回到了马身上,它既是建设性的工具,也是灭绝的工具,而牛仔们则用马来消灭野狗,这是一场血腥的旅行,反映了《血色子午线》和《骏马全集》。因此,在《血子午线》和《边界》三部曲中,骑术是由骑手的手段和目的以及作品所设定的历史轨迹所塑造的一个层次。
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"You don't have to do this": Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men and the Courage to Be “你不必这样做”:科马克·麦卡锡的《老无所依》和《勇敢去做》
Pub Date : 2021-10-16 DOI: 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.
本文探讨了科马克·麦卡锡的小说《老无所依》(2005)中主人公安东·齐格和埃德·汤姆·贝尔做出的关键道德选择背后的动机,探讨了在面临生存威胁的情况下,勇敢地生活意味着什么。在保罗·蒂利希1952年出版的《勇敢去做》一书的支持下,这篇文章发现,这些人物选择背后的主要意图是保护自己免受自我谴责的存在焦虑。这种解读质疑了齐格要么没有道德责任感,要么旨在逃避道德责任的观点,以及贝尔的故事自始至终都是道德懦弱的故事,结论是作者的愿景遇到了压倒性的外部力量所带来的挑战,而不是向它们屈服。这些结果可能有助于未来对麦卡锡作品中自我肯定的研究。
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