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Need to start my Thesis in June. What can I write about pic related?

Maybe compare it to Butcher's Crossing by John Williams ?

>> No.13148614

>>13148595
No, comic books are gay.

>> No.13148625

>>13148595
Read a book called Notes on Blood Meridian and select a theme. What you proposed sounds silly.

>> No.13148749

>>13148625
>What you proposed sounds silly.
Perhaps, but I thought both a celebrated revisionist Western, both have a discourse on nature. Williams, for instance, delineates the social construction of nature renouncing Emerson's belief that nature is something apart from our conventions and therefore a place of liberation. That means, Andrews escapist quest ends up as a capitalist quest for buffalo hides that feeds big frontier cities commodity needs. Shit like that. I would like to know how BM renders natural landscape, possibly it's just an empty symbol and therefore nihilistic, or much more than that. Wish I had a stupid "Just-do-it" law paper to write...

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>>13148625
>Read a book called Notes on Blood Meridian

but it's huge and I am brainlet

>> No.13148908

>>13148595
Nah, you should look at family dynamics in J R by William Gaddis.

>> No.13148989

>>13148749
Sounds cool

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>>13148908
definitely not
I attempt to write a piece that is better than the actual novel, and I want to fail miserably like everyone does, who thinks he's smarter than everyone else.

>> No.13149168

>>13148749
Interesting topic. For BM I would try and find Steven Shaviro's essay 'The Very Life of The Darkness”: A Reading of Blood Meridian' in Perspectives on Cormac Mccarthy. He discusses, among other things, the landscape of the novel. Also find the passages where the kid comes across the dead baby tree and the tree on fire in the novel. You can certainly mine lots of interesting landscape analysis from BM.

>>13148768
It's not even that big, the book is effectively a cheat sheet where Sepich has done all the painstaking contextual work for you, or at the very least a foil to argue with in your essay.