Tag Archives: Realism
McCarthy keeps it real
He took off the shirt. It stuck to the skin and a yellow pus ran. His arm was swollen to the size of his thigh and it was garishly discolored and small worms worked in the open wound. –Blood Meridian, pg. … Continue reading
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Romanticism in Blood Meridian
In class, we had listed characteristics of the “Western” genre. Some keywords on the board included “loner” and ever “romanticized”. While Blood Meridian is clearly separated from typical genre work, it still maintains a variation of these western genre characteristics, … Continue reading
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