Too Far Gone: The Psychological Games of Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses
This article uses Jacques Lacan’s reading of the Freudian fort-dagame to analyze that most American of cultural constructs, the cowboy, at the time of that figure’s fading from the American landscape: the immediate postwar years. With John Grady Cole, the protagonist of All the Pretty Horses (1992)...
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European Association for American Studies
2016-08-01
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| Series: | European Journal of American Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/11630 |
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