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Suttree by Cormac McCarthy

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Author Biography

Name: Cormac McCarthy
Birth Date: July 20, 1933
Place of Birth: Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: Writer

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Biography of Cormac McCarthy
3802 words, approx. 12.7 pages
Cormac McCarthy, whose early novels were often set in eastern Tennessee and whose later work focuses on the American Southwest, is frequently compared with such Southern-based writers as William Faulkner, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O'Connor. In a Dic...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Suttree Information
472 words, approx. 2 pages
Suttree is a semi-autobiographical novel by Cormac McCarthy, published in 1979. Set in 1951 in Knoxville, Tennessee, the novel follows Cornelius Suttree, who has repudiated his former life of privilege to become a fisherman on the Tennessee River. The...


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The Mississippi Quarterly
McCarthy, Mac Airt and mythology: Suttree and the Irish high king.(Cormac McCarthy, Cormac Mac Airt, Buddy Suttree)(Critical essay)
12/22/2004: 6,152 words, approx. 21 pages
IN THE RICHLY ALLUSIVE NOVEL SUTTREE, CORMAC MCCARTHY BORROWS structural devices from Irish tales of the high kings to give shape and meaning to Buddy Suttree's wanderings. Some of the allusions in Suttree extend back through The Waste Land to Odysseus, to the...
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Christianity and Literature
Redemption as language in Cormac McCarthy's Suttree.
03/22/2004: 6,137 words, approx. 21 pages
While all of Cormac McCarthy's fiction is recondite, most of his characters are primitives who, in high contrast to their maker, have only a rudimentary facility with language. Their ponderous and slack attention, located somewhere between animal sentience and flail human engagement in...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Review by Frank W. Shelton
4,920 words, approx. 16 pages
In the following essay, Shelton comments upon the existential themes within Suttree, and focuses on the protagonist of the same name. Shelton provides an overview of the novel, and discusses the Myth of Sisyphus, suicide, and other topics in his treatment.
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Critical Review by John Lewis Longley Jr.
4,898 words, approx. 16 pages
In the following article, Longley Jr. provides an examination of the novel Suttree, discusses McCarthy's writing style, and comments on McCarthy's place in the literary world.
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Critical Review by Jim Crace
419 words, approx. 1 pages
In the following excerpt, Crace discusses categorizing Suttree as a "tribal" work, and faults the novel for lacking an "overall social and allegorical context."
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Suttree by Cormac Mccarthy: Critical Analysis and Review
2,373 words, approx. 8 pages
Critical analysis and review of Sutree by Cormac McCarthy including major themes, significance in title, symbolism, setting, and comparison to other novels. Essay also includes an analysis of D.S. Butterworth's scholarly article Pearls as Swine: Recentering the Marginal in Cormac McCarthy's Suttree.


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