Who Dun It to the Country? Crime, Investigation, and 9/11 in No Country for Old Men

• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: Yaeri Kim
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』영미어문학 제108호, 153~168쪽, 전체 16쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2013.08.31

영문 초록

This article examines McCarthy's use of the genre of crime novel, especially its element of crime investigation process, in No Country for Old Men in the context of the aftermath of the 9/11 attack. Despite the facts that No Country for Old Men is marketed and commonly perceived as a crime fiction and that the plot and the style of the novel are indicative of the genre, literary critics have been reluctant to read this novel as a crime fiction. However, the elements of crime and investigation are central to the novel's debunking of the mythologized images of the past and revelation of the history that has culminated to the present state of the United States. Through the plot of an expanding spiral of violent crimes and the process of investigation, McCarthy reveals the violent history of the U.S. and dismantles the idealized myth of Old West that covers it.

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No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy Crime Novel September 11 Contemporary American Literature