Mirror-Image Asymmetry, Chirality, and Suttree by Bryan Giemza

“…The first half of this paper looks at the science of chirality, and the second half at how it is manifested primarily in Suttree, one of Cormac McCarthy’s novels. Chirality and the interplay of symmetry and asymmetry is a transformative concept in nature, in human experience, and in the philosophies of deep-seeing writers. …”
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Cormac McCarthy’s Aesthet(h)ics of the “Canal-Rhizome” in Suttree by Marie-Agnès Gay

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A Feeling you Cannot Name by Petrelli, Marco

“…The Sound and the Fury and Suttree are hence tied together in their critique of the social neuroses of the South through the depiction of a biased sense of time. …”
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“But lo the thing’s inside and can you guess his shape?”: the semiotic elaboration of Cormac McCarthy’s autotextual creature in his early novels and No Country for Old Men by Yvonne-Marie Rogez

“…In the introduction to Suttree, the narrator warns the reader of the terrible events to come and indicates that the “thing’s” place is inward. …”
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“Before Man Was, War Waited for Him”. Blood Meridian e la Guerra del Vietnam by Giulio Segato

“…Se si esclude No Country for Old Men, la Guerra del Vietnam non è mai apparsa esplicitamente nei romanzi di Cormac McCarthy, ma, tuttavia, ha lasciato qualche traccia nascosta nei primi lavori dello scrittore (in Child of God, Suttree e Blood Meridian). In particolare Blood Meridian, nonostante l’ambientazione western, mostra immagini e simboli chiaramente influenzati dall’esperienza politico-militare americana in Vietnam. …”
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