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Jan 04, 2025
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AREL 825 - Blood America: Reading Cormac McCarthy3 credits
McCarthy is a frightening humanist, a verbal artistry of heroic scale and risk, and a vision of historical American character having a dark beauty that both appalls and renews. He has created American characters that seem to come out hard from people’s collective memory, such as Judge Holden, Billy Parham, and most recently and simply, “the man” and “the boy.” Students may concentrate on six of McCarthy’s novels from Blood Meridian to The Road. Questions are raised about their representations of traditional male journeys; regeneration through violence; Southwest American nature, borders, and their peoples; narrative technique; roots in and contrasts with genre Westerns, Faulkner, and other American writers; immedicable evil; and intransigent courage and goodness.
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