[Bananafish] bananafish Digest, Vol 37, Issue 5

Tue Oct 23 12:07:24 EDT 2007

*Literary Criticism on McCarthy's The Road*

I was in attendance at the Univ of Tenn Knoxville for the delivery of the
first wave of The Road criticism.  Here's the link- go to program and click
on any presentation that you'd like.

http://www.lib.utk.edu/newfoundpress/mccarthy/mccarthy3.html

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>   1. McCarthy's Road (Michael Anello)
>   2. Re: McCarthy's Road (Raymond, Matthew T)
>   3. Re: McCarthy's Road (Yocum, Daniel R Civ 21 CES/CEOE)
>   4.  More McCarthy (Yocum, Daniel R Civ 21 CES/CEOE)
>   5. Re: More McCarthy (Michael Anello)
>   6. Re: McCarthy's Road (James Rovira)
>   7. Re: McCarthy's Road (Michael Anello)
>   8. Re: McCarthy's Road (Yocum, Daniel R Civ 21 CES/CEOE)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:32:09 -0700
> From: "Michael Anello" <michaelanello at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Bananafish] McCarthy's Road
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> just on a lark i put this on hold in the library and it came to me
> immediately so i sat down and read it and it was pretty good, i liked it.
>
> it got me there right near the end.  the fear.
>
> thanks for the recommend.
>
> --
> Two amoeba walk out of a bar.
> One amoeba says to the other, "Say, is that the sun or the moon?"
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> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:55:25 -0500
> From: "Raymond, Matthew T" <Matthew.Raymond at Lyondell.com>
> Subject: Re: [Bananafish] McCarthy's Road
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> Glad you liked it.
>
> Anyone know of any literary criticism on The Road?  I searched JSTOR,
> etc., but haven't found anything other than book reviews.
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> Maybe it's still too soon?
>
>
> Matthew
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> [mailto:bananafish-bounces at lists.bway.net] On Behalf Of Michael Anello
> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 5:32 PM
> To: bananafish at lists.bway.net
> Subject: [Bananafish] McCarthy's Road
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>
> just on a lark i put this on hold in the library and it came to me
> immediately so i sat down and read it and it was pretty good, i liked
> it.
>
> it got me there right near the end.  the fear.
>
> thanks for the recommend.
>
> --
> Two amoeba walk out of a bar.
> One amoeba says to the other, "Say, is that the sun or the moon?"
> And the other amoeba says, "I don't know, I don't live around here!"
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> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:42:51 -0600
> From: "Yocum, Daniel R Civ 21 CES/CEOE" <daniel.yocum at Peterson.af.mil>
> Subject: Re: [Bananafish] McCarthy's Road
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> McCarthy says that it was his youngest son who inspired the story.  I
> have read similar shorts in the past but this one captures the bleakness
> like none of the others.  This is the extreme opposite to the Lewis's
> view of the world (the living, vibrant numinous environment and the
> dead, albatross around your neck - rotting carcass environment), they
> both work on ya though.
>
> Daniel
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bananafish-Michael Anello
> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 4:32 PM
>
> just on a lark i put this on hold in the library and it came to me
> immediately so i sat down and read it and it was pretty good, i liked
> it.
>
> it got me there right near the end.  the fear.
>
> thanks for the recommend.
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:48:41 -0600
> From: "Yocum, Daniel R Civ 21 CES/CEOE" <daniel.yocum at Peterson.af.mil>
> Subject: [Bananafish]  More McCarthy
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> Mike, if you want another quick read McCarthy try Sunset Limited.
>
> Daniel
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> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:02:24 -0700
> From: "Michael Anello" <michaelanello at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Bananafish] More McCarthy
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> Mm-kay.
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> On 10/23/07, Yocum, Daniel R Civ 21 CES/CEOE <daniel.yocum at peterson.af.mil
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> wrote:
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> > Mike, if you want another quick read McCarthy try Sunset Limited.
> >
> > Daniel
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> From: "James Rovira" <jamesrovira at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Bananafish] McCarthy's Road
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> I have a buddy doing work on McCarthy...will ask him about literary
> criticism.
>
> Jim
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> On 10/23/07, Yocum, Daniel R Civ 21 CES/CEOE
> <daniel.yocum at peterson.af.mil> wrote:
> > McCarthy says that it was his youngest son who inspired the story.  I
> > have read similar shorts in the past but this one captures the bleakness
> > like none of the others.  This is the extreme opposite to the Lewis's
> > view of the world (the living, vibrant numinous environment and the
> > dead, albatross around your neck - rotting carcass environment), they
> > both work on ya though.
> >
> > Daniel
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: bananafish-Michael Anello
> > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 4:32 PM
> >
> > just on a lark i put this on hold in the library and it came to me
> > immediately so i sat down and read it and it was pretty good, i liked
> > it.
> >
> > it got me there right near the end.  the fear.
> >
> > thanks for the recommend.
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> Message: 7
> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:06:15 -0700
> From: "Michael Anello" <michaelanello at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Bananafish] McCarthy's Road
> To: "bananafish list" <bananafish at lists.bway.net>
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> Read my shorts.
>
> On 10/23/07, Yocum, Daniel R Civ 21 CES/CEOE <daniel.yocum at peterson.af.mil
> >
> wrote:
> >
> > I have read similar shorts in the past.
> > Daniel
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> > From: bananafish-Michael Anello
> > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 4:32 PM
> >
> > just on a lark i put this on hold in the library and it came to me
> > immediately so i sat down and read it and it was pretty good, i liked
> > it.
> >
> > it got me there right near the end.  the fear.
> >
> > thanks for the recommend.
> >
> > --
> > Two amoeba walk out of a bar.
> > One amoeba says to the other, "Say, is that the sun or the moon?"
> > And the other amoeba says, "I don't know, I don't live around here!"
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> From: "Yocum, Daniel R Civ 21 CES/CEOE" <daniel.yocum at Peterson.af.mil>
> Subject: Re: [Bananafish] McCarthy's Road
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> I did, unimaginative, you know, the same old shit.
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> Daniel
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 9:06 AM
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> Read my shorts.
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