No Real Heroes in Cult Novels: Cormac McCarthy's 'The Border Trilogy'

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No Real Heroes in Cult Novels: Cormac McCarthy's 'The Border Trilogy'
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The essay discusses the cult potential of Cormac McCarthy's "The Border Trilogy." Comparing several theorists' cult-making criteria, it comes to the conclusion that, while cult fiction is not an independent genre, it is much more than a set of individualworks arbitrarily chosen by their recipients. Cult works share components that go beyond mere reception and turn to their thematic layout. Thomas Read Whissen names alienation, suffering, ego-reinforcement, and vulnerability of a protagonist, and the essay offers several more common denominators: the presence of a moral hierarchy, the theme of quest, the influence of popular culture, characters as types, and no clear victory of the good over evil, or vice versa. From that point of view, the first two volumes of the trilogy, All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing are not cult novels, when considered as separate volumes, as they are too immersed in the western imagery. The third volume, Cities of the Plain, is a cult novel in itself,
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2008
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