“Scanning the Landscape for Some Guidance in That Emptiness”: The (De)Construction of Meaning in Blood Meridian
In the diegesis of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian (1985), the decline of religious fervor is accompanied by a trenchant crisis of signification. The need for the reassertion of meaning leads to the advent of an alternative worldview that offers a mythologized view of war as a suitable substitute f...
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| Language: | por |
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2018
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| Online Access: | https://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/VP/article/view/4518 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Oai: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/4518 |