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Disappearance in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian
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Snyder discusses the trope of disappearance in Blood Meridian as a key aspect of McCarthy's revisionist version of the West according to Paul Virilio's notion that we observe the world only as it is in the process of disappearing and Jacques Derrida's notion of writing as if under erasure, as well as the poststructural notion of language as spectral, a ghostly presence that actually marks an absence as discussed by the authors.Abstract:
Snyder discusses the trope of disappearance in Blood Meridian as a key aspect of McCarthy's revisionist version of the West according to (1) Paul Virilio's notion that we observe the world only as it is in the process of disappearing and (2) Jacques Derrida's notion that we always write as if under erasure, as well as the poststructural notion of language as spectral, that is, a ghostly presence that actually marks an absence. The textual analysis is focused especially on (1) the metacritical frame (narrator, glosser, and epilogue), (2) the Glanton gang as agents of disappearance, and (3) the search for the signified, both past and future, in the trace or artifact. The main argument is that everything in the novel seems to disappear.read more
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Prairie survivance: language, narrative, and place-making in the American Midwest
TL;DR: Low as discussed by the authors submitted a thesis in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in English in the Graduate College of The University of Iowa in the American Midwestern Region, USA.
Drawing Fire from the Text: Narrative and Morality in Blood Meridian
TL;DR: The power of language has been explored in the work of as mentioned in this paper, who argue that language is the proprietor of meaning in the world and the meaning of words is communally, cooperatively determined, and this collective agreement involves agreement in judgments.
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Our Knowing Compelled to Go Back: Speculative Misreading and the Identity of Blood Meridian
TL;DR: In this paper, a speculative reading of the Blood Meridian is proposed, which moves this problem to the center of the text, and examines the text's attempts to resolve it, which is problematic because it appears to assert both the utter contingency of human existence and the absolute self-determination of human will.
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The Judge, the Future Type of Mind, and Negative Entropy in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian
Wei Feng,Xianqing Zheng +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an intertextual reading of a key passage relating to the judge's origin in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian in reference to H. G. Wells's famous speech "The Discovery of the F...
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Narrative discourse : an essay in method
TL;DR: Cutler as mentioned in this paper presents a Translator's Preface Preface and Preface for English-to-Arabic Translating Translators (TSPT) with a preface by Jonathan Cutler.
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The heart of darkness: the impact of perceived mistakes on physicians.
TL;DR: How physicians think and feel about their perceived mistakes is described, and how physicians’ prior beliefs and manners of coping with mistakes may influence their emotional responses are examined to promote further discussion in the medical community about this sensitive issue.
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The Aesthetics of Disappearance
Paul Virilio,Philip Beitchman +1 more
TL;DR: Virilio himself referred to his 1980 work The Aesthetics of Disappearance as a "juncture" in his thinking, one at which he brought his focus onto the logistics of perception, a logistics he would soon come to refer to as the "vision machine".
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Blood meridian, or, The evening redness in the West
TL;DR: McCarthy's Blood Meridian as mentioned in this paper is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West.