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

“…This paper aims to analyze the struggle between the good and evil and the degree of insanity performed by the evil depicted through southern gothic and grotesque scenes. Thus, the paper contributes to grotesque reading of the selected text through a number of elements: “exaggeration, hyperbolism, and excessiveness,” generally considered fundamental attributes of the grotesque style (Bakhtin, 1984, p. 303).…”
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