Lecture 17 - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
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published: April 8, 2011, recorded: March 2008, views: 2742
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In this first of two lectures on Blood Meridian, Professor Hungerford walks us through some of the novel's major sources and influences, showing how McCarthy engages both literary tradition and American history, and indeed questions of origins and originality itself. The Bible, Moby-Dick, Paradise Lost, the poetry of William Wordsworth, and the historical narrative of Sam Chamberlain all contribute to the style and themes of this work that remains, in its own right, a provocative meditation on history, one that explores the very limits of narrative and human potential.
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Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian (1985)
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