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- Title
"A KNIGHT OF GHOSTS AND SHADOWS": CORMAC MCCARTHY'S ALL THE PRETTY HORSES AND THE AESTHETICS OF ADVENTURE.
- Authors
BUDAC, ALEXANDRU
- Abstract
A typical American coming-of-age novel, "All the Pretty Horses" (1993) is Cormac McCarthy's masterful way of dealing with universal topics such as boyhood, parents and children, violent passions, and friendship. Yet the mythical tonalities and crafted structure hide an intricate philosophical web, which brings adventure fiction codes and environmental issues together. My paper aims to highlight the relation between character and nature and to question the realism of the novel. I will also try to explain why Cormac McCarthy's narrative style encourages allegorical readings, while subverting them at the same time.
- Subjects
ALL the Pretty Horses (Book); MCCARTHY, Cormac, 1933-2023; ADVENTURE stories; LITERARY characters; NATURE in literature; NARRATIVES; 21ST century (Literary period)
- Publication
BAS - British & American Studies, 2014, Vol 20, p7
- ISSN
1224-3086
- Publication type
Literary Criticism