What is it about?
Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian (1985) is widely considered to be one of the most significant contemporary American novels, and this paper revises popular interpretations of how McCarthy incorporated and adapted historical sources for the book. As opposed to using these sources as a repository of ideas from which he could borrow, McCarthy's novel instead engages in a debate with those sources, particularly about the role of religion against scientific naturalism.
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This paper establishes a new paradigm in discussing how Blood Meridian interprets and considers the real life escapades of the Glanton Gang along the U.S.-Mexican border following the Mexican-American War.
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The research for and writing of this article was a great joy for me. I hope that what people take away from this article is a new (or renewed) look the richness and complexity of McCarthy's novel as well as gain an insight into the peculiar thoughts and actions of those who inspired his landmark work.
Zack Kruse
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This page is a summary of: “You Were a Witness Against Yourself”: McCarthy’s Judge as Chamberlain’s Interlocutor in Blood Meridian, Critique Studies in Contemporary Fiction, June 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2018.1483319.
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