Náboženství války: ztráta smyslu americké historie v Krvavém poledníku Cormaca McCarthyho

Polívka, Zdeněk

THESIS ABSTRACT This thesis takes it upon itself to investigate Cormac McCarthy's rendition of the process of creation of American national identity based on pragmatic individualism during the period of the nation's westward expansion, as it appears in his 1985 novel Blood Meridian Or The Evening Redness in the West. The initial point of departure for the argument will be the essay written by G. Deleuze "Bartleby; or, The Formula," where Deleuze conceives of American identity and culture as a continuous process of rapture with what he calls paternal models of social formation pertaining to the old continent, seeing the pragmatic line of thought as the chief constituting factor of this essentially anti-teleological process. This attitude is going to be juxtaposed to McCarthy's own depiction of America in the period of the nation's westward expansion. Through working with Deleuze and F. Guattari's concepts of reterritorialization and deterritorialization we shall investigate some of the prominent features of McCarthy's narrative style, most notably his imagery and narrative technique, attempting to suggest how his specific stylistic choices influence the novel's rendition of what shall be claimed to be an ideologically decentered space, not dissimilar to Deleuze's conception of nation without fathers....

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