So, as you’ve probably noticed, I’m a slave to my obsessions. And now and then they combine in interesting ways. (Interesting to me, that is. I completely understand when they’re of no interest to anyone else.) So, digging deep into two … Continue reading
(The beginning of some notes on Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian as promised here. ) This one takes a little patience, but one of the most fruitful ways to track the judge’s representation of Indians is tease out the historical representations of Indians … Continue reading
I’ve been thinking lately about Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. I criticized Harold Bloom a while back for underplaying the anticolonial bent of the book, and also commented on the misguided focus on the Bible and William Faulkner as primary influences on the novel. That’s … Continue reading
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