Too Far Gone: The Psychological Games of Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses

This article uses Jacques Lacan’s reading of the Freudian fort-dagame to analyze that most American of cultural constructs, the cowboy, at the time of that figure’s fading from the American landscape: the immediate postwar years.  With John Grady Cole, the protagonist of All the Pretty Horses (1992)...

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Main Author: Michael Wainwright
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Association for American Studies
Series:European Journal of American Studies
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/11630