Southern Gothic is a mode or genre prevalent in literature from the early 19th century to this
day. Characteristics of Southern Gothic include the presence of irrational, horrific, and …

This book argues that McCarthy's works convey a profound moral vision, and use
intertextuality, moral philosophy, and questions of genre to advance that vision. It focuses …

A literary study of childhood in the American Gothic. Childhood in Gothic literature has often
served colonialist, white supremacist, and patriarchal ideologies, but in Uncanny Youth …

Gothic Appalachian Literature examines the ways contemporary Appalachian authors utilize
gothic tropes to explore the complex history and contemporary problems of the region …

Abstract Cormac McCarthy's novels Outer Dark (1968) and The Road (2006) project different
visions of fatherhood, yet both focus on men who travel dark, unnamed roads as they …

This article explores how Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger (2022) and Stella Maris (2022)
cement a reliance on Gothic literary minimalism. Although minimalism and the Gothic are …

Il mito di Fedra (che l'Ippolito euripideo trasmette alla letteratura antica e moderna, da Ovidio
a Seneca, a Racine, a Swinburne, a D'Annunzio) consegna all'immaginario collettivo una …

CORMAC MCCARTHY'S FIRST NOVEL, THE ORCHARD KEEPER, IS GENERALLY read
as a critique of modernization and progress, a lament for the loss of pastoral life and morality …

Gothic depictions of early childhood and its antecedents from conception to childbirth stand
to fundamentally shape readers' understanding of colonialism across the transnational and …

I draw on recent metaphysical advancements as applied to axiology (ie value theory) in
order to cast new light on the phenomenon of aesthetic encroachment—ie when …