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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“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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