The resurrection of narrative: Postmodern positions on knowledge in the work of Cormac McCarthy

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Book review

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6 pages

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.doc

Published date :

09/01/2008

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Table of Contents The resurrection of narrative: Postmodern positions on knowledge in the work of Cormac McCarthy Table of Contents

 
  1. Introduction.
  2. Dichotomy, set up by Lyotard in his essay titled The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge.
  3. Technological advancement - an important aspect to consider in McCarthy's work.
  4. McCarthy's The Road - conflict in both structure and content..
  5. The Crossing by McCarthy - most explicit instance of discussion on narrative knowledge.
  6. The obsolescence of stonemasonry.
  7. McCarthy's second and most recently published play, The Sunset Limited.
  8. Judge Holden in Blood Meridian.
  9. The terror evoked by the Judge.
  10. Conclusion.

Abstract

'For this world also which seems to us a thing of stone and flower and blood is not a thing at all but is a tale.' cormac mccarthy, by profession, is concerned with narrative. Being so concerned, conclusions can be drawn by clues both explicit and implicit pertaining to mccarthy's stance on the condition of truth, narrative, and knowledge in our modern society. An analysis of his work yields a general tendency to exemplify the narrative. In doing so mccarthy sets himself against a specific trend in postmodern thought burgeoned by Jean-François Lyotard, that being the rejection of pre-modern, or narrative knowledge by modern, or scientific knowledge.

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