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No Place for Home Spatial Constraint and Character Flight in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy
By Jay Ellis
Copyright 2006
368 Pages
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This book was written to venture beyond interpretations of Cormac McCarthy's characters as simple, antinomian, and non-psychological; and of his landscapes as unrelated to the violent arcs of often orphaned and always emotionally isolated and socially detached characters. As McCarthy usually eschews direct indications of psychology, his landscapes allow us to infer much about their motivations.... Read more
Chapter 1 Spatial Constraint and Character Flight in McCarthy; Chapter 2 “Fled, banished in death or exile:” Constraint and Flight in The Orchard Keeper; Chapter 3 Unhousing a Child of God; Chapter 4 Sins of the Father, Sins of the Son in Outer Dark, Suttree, and Blood Meridian; Chapter 5 “What happens to country” in Blood Meridian; Chapter 6 From Country to Houses in The Border Trilogy; Chapter 7 Fetish and Collapse in No Country for Old Men; Chapter 8 No Place for Home;
Biography
Jay Ellis
"Ultimately, the real achievement of the critic [Ellis] is his ability to take earthy material and underline for his readers the scope of its most heartening impacts." -- Craig Monk, The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, Volume 62, Number 1, Spring 2008
