Grotesque and Southern Gothic in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian by Hüseyin Altındiş

“…This article offers a post-southernist reading that challenges and problematizes the impacts of haunted past of the American South with implications of violence embodied by Judge Holden in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West. In order to present a moral compass to the reader, the text presents good-evil dichotomy and the world of human through the uncanny and grotesque characters of “the kid” and “the judge.” …”
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Landscapes as Narrative Commentary in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West by Dianne C. Luce

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Old Nick Crossed the Mississippi: The Figure of the Devil in Late Cold War Era Novels of the American West by Michael Walonen

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“Some Unholy Alloy”: Neoliberalism, Digital Modernity, and the Mechanics of Globalized Capital in Cormac McCarthy’s The Counselor by David Deacon

“…I will propose that echoes of Blood Meridian (1985), which presented the duality of barbarism and capital, are audible and perpetuated under digital capitalism, a condition encompassing the expansion of increasingly impersonal and anonymized capital under neoliberal socio-economics, empowered by digital globalization. …”
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Cormac McCarthy and the Genre Turn in Contemporary Literary Fiction by James Dorson

“…This essay looks at the role that genre has played in Cormac McCarthy’s fiction since his turn to the Western with Blood Meridian (1985). It assesses his genre fiction vis-à-vis Mark McGurl’s influential study of the importance of creative writing programs for postwar US fiction in The Program Era (2009). …”
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Giving Full Play to Role of Traditional Chinese Medicine in the Rehabilitation of Diseases by Lidian CHEN

“…Traditional Chinese medicine focuses on following the nature rhythm, cultivating vital Qi, maintaining functional balance among viscera, Qi and blood, meridians and collaterals through a reasonable way of life, accompanying by adapting to the society. …”
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