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Course Description

“Dear friend now in the dusty clockless hours of the town…in these sootblacked brick or cobbled corridors where lightwire shadows make a gothic harp of cellar doors no soul shall walk save you”— thus Cormac McCarthy invites you to his tale of a Knoxvillean who in the early 1950s has renounced his privilege to make a life on the Tennessee River. McCarthy has been variously hailed as heir of Melville, Faulkner, and Joyce for his darkly comitragic and bizarrely beautiful stories of loners on the fringes of the violent American past. We will read his Southern Gothic epic, attending to McCarthy’s black comedy, his peculiar and compelling style, and his ambivalent vision of America’s reprobate and demonically spirited heritage.

Prerequisites

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