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The Changing Landscape of Violence in Cormac McCarthy's Early Novels and the Border Trilogy

The Changing Landscape of Violence in Cormac McCarthy's Early Novels and the Border Trilogy The Changing Landscape of Violence in Cormac McCarthy's Early Novels and the Border Trilogy by Vince Brewton Cormac McCarthy's appearance on the national literary radar with the successful publication of All the Pretty Horses, after years of largely "academic" interest in his work, also inaugurated on a substantive level a clearly defined second phase in his career as a writer. Chronology alone would mark McCarthy's first phase as a novelist as the two decades between 1965 and 1985 that saw the publication of The Orchard Keeper, Outer Dark, Child of God, Suttree, and Blood Meridian, while r d s the Border Trilogy spans the 90s, including All the Pretty Horses (1992), The Crossing (1994), and his latest, Cities of the Plain (1998). A historin cist approach to McCarthy's fiction, however, corroborates the chronological separation in that it reveals the correlations between the work of McCarthy's two major periods on the one hand and the cultural moments, popular and otherwise, with which their conception and composition coincided. A clear and discernible correlation exists between the novels of McCarthy's first period and the era of American history defined by the military involvement in Vietnam, while the novels of the Border http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Southern Literary Journal University of North Carolina Press

The Changing Landscape of Violence in Cormac McCarthy's Early Novels and the Border Trilogy

The Southern Literary Journal , Volume 37 (1) – Jan 11, 2004

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Abstract

The Changing Landscape of Violence in Cormac McCarthy's Early Novels and the Border Trilogy by Vince Brewton Cormac McCarthy's appearance on the national literary radar with the successful publication of All the Pretty Horses, after years of largely "academic" interest in his work, also inaugurated on a substantive level a clearly defined second phase in his career as a writer. Chronology alone would mark McCarthy's first phase as a novelist as the two decades between 1965 and 1985 that saw the publication of The Orchard Keeper, Outer Dark, Child of God, Suttree, and Blood Meridian, while r d s the Border Trilogy spans the 90s, including All the Pretty Horses (1992), The Crossing (1994), and his latest, Cities of the Plain (1998). A historin cist approach to McCarthy's fiction, however, corroborates the chronological separation in that it reveals the correlations between the work of McCarthy's two major periods on the one hand and the cultural moments, popular and otherwise, with which their conception and composition coincided. A clear and discernible correlation exists between the novels of McCarthy's first period and the era of American history defined by the military involvement in Vietnam, while the novels of the Border

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Published: Jan 11, 2004

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