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"You didnt give me words" - Religious Subversion and Secular Philosophy in Cormac McCarthy

dc.contributor.authorBowes, Adam
dc.contributor.copyright-releaseNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.degreeMaster of Artsen_US
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Englishen_US
dc.contributor.ethics-approvalNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.external-examinerN/Aen_US
dc.contributor.graduate-coordinatorAlice Brittanen_US
dc.contributor.manuscriptsNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.thesis-readerAnthony Ennsen_US
dc.contributor.thesis-readerBruce Greenfielden_US
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisorTrevor Rossen_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-08-28T12:31:15Z
dc.date.available2012-08-28T12:31:15Z
dc.date.defence2012-08-23
dc.date.issued2012-08-28
dc.description.abstractThis project attempts to track and delineate a consistent subversion of religion and faith, as well as a vindication of fundamental principles of secular philosophy in Cormac McCarthy’s fiction. I identify three interconnected vehicles of religious subversion and secular philosophy in McCarthy's fiction. There are direct, characterized representations of the secular worldview. These characters explicitly relate a secular, practically Nietzschean philosophy, but are themselves presented as divine figures. There are also “false prophets,” characters who express traditional Christian or deistic relationships with morality and reality that are essentially instances of dramatic irony. Finally, there are “true prophets,” characters who undertake spiritual journeys that lead to paradoxical moments of epistemological revelation that at once subvert religion, and validate secular principles of the human relationship to reality.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10222/15390
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.title"You didnt give me words" - Religious Subversion and Secular Philosophy in Cormac McCarthyen_US

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