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dc.contributor.advisorMulman, Lisaen_US
dc.contributor.advisorJaros, Michaelen_US
dc.contributor.advisorValens, Kejaen_US
dc.contributor.authorBishop, Jonathan
dc.creatorBishop, Jonathanen_US
dc.date2021-11-24T14:05:37.000en_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-29T11:27:57Z
dc.date.available2021-11-29T11:27:57Z
dc.date.issued2015-01-01en_US
dc.date.submitted2016-03-23T08:16:50-07:00en_US
dc.identifiergraduate_theses/15en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13013/541en_US
dc.description.abstractWalter Benjamin and Cormac McCarthy — one a German philosopher and critic, the other an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter — have much in common. Stylistically, both use a mixture of short and long but poetic phrases that seem to cut right through to the heart. There is also the matter of historical examination. Benjamin most famously said that "there is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism." McCarthy would likely agree: consider his Blood Meridian, which pits the monstrous Judge Holden against everyone else, and Captain White's crew, to which the Judge belongs, against Native Americans, who are also quite violent. McCarthy, like Benjamin, explores the meaning of storytelling. For instance, the father, in The Road, informs his son of the world that has now crumbled into dust; both of them inhabit a post-apocalyptic landscape. Finally, both writers alternate between a materialism and an understanding of the mystical, the metaphysical, the transcendent side of existence, occupying a sort of liminal space. This paper will explore these connections. It will focus on the following McCarthy novels: The Road, No Country for Old Men, and Blood Meridian. And, for Benjamin: Illuminations, Selected Writings, paying particular attention to "Theses on the Philosophy of History" and "The Storyteller."en_US
dc.titleOn Time, History, And Metaphysics: The Thought of Cormac McCarthy and Walter Benjaminen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.legacy.embargo2016-03-23T00:00:00-07:00en_US
dc.legacy.pubstatuspublisheden_US
dc.description.departmentEnglishen_US
dc.date.display2015en_US
dc.type.degreeMaster of Arts (MA)en_US
dc.legacy.pubtitleGraduate Thesesen_US
dc.legacy.identifierhttps://digitalcommons.salemstate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1013&context=graduate_theses&unstamped=1en_US
dc.legacy.identifieritemhttps://digitalcommons.salemstate.edu/graduate_theses/15en_US
dc.subject.keywordCormac McCarthyen_US
dc.subject.keywordWalter Benjaminen_US
dc.subject.keywordmodernityen_US
dc.subject.keywordhistoryen_US
dc.subject.keywordtimeen_US
dc.subject.keywordBenjaminen_US
dc.subject.keywordMcCarthyen_US
dc.subject.keywordthoughten_US


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