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an international and interdisciplinary journal of postmodern cultural sound, text and image

 ISSN 1552-5112

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Cormac McCarthy: When the Man Comes Around | Kritikos – Intertheory Press | Online International Conference | 15 November 2023

 

 

 

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There's a man goin' 'round takin' names

And he decides who to free and who to blame

Everybody won't be treated all the same

There'll be a golden ladder reachin' down

When the man comes around.[1]

 

Johnny Cash

 

 

 

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Cormac McCarthy: When the Man Comes Around (2023) is a one-day conference to be held on November 15, 2023 regarding the work of Cormac McCarthy (July 30, 1933 – June 13, 2023).

Papers are invited that touch on his characteristic treatment of a variety of subjects within his body of work: masculinity, femininity and Stoicism (analytic and continental), writing, living and dying; the ontology, epistemology and literature of fate and identity; war and peace, film adaptations of his work, politics and sovereignty, science fiction, extreme phenomena (e.g. COVID-19, UFOs/UAPs, Earth’s heating climate, A.I., etc.), art, fiction and narrative, violence, law, power, metaphysics, critical inquiry and so on. 

 

A special print volume of selected conference papers will be published by Intertheory Press after the event, slated for release sometime in 2024.

 

Presentations will be streamed live over Zoom; 20 minutes are allocated for each presentation, with Q&A time up to twenty minutes, as needed; audience questions may be submitted via Zoom chat. The live Zoom presentations and Q&A will not be recorded by Intertheory Press or Kritikos. Participants are free to record presentations if they wish.

Paper submissions may be sent to editor@intertheory.org

Conference registration is available here. The deadline is 31 August 2023.

 

9:40am – Stefanie Heine, “Floating Worlds, Floating Words: The Writing Process of Blood Meridian

10am – Bernard T. Joy, “Cormac McCarthy’s Geopoetry: Rhetorical Figures of Landscape and Time in Blood Meridian and the Border Trilogy”

10:40am – Ben Gaskin, “After Babel, Nineveh and the Horizontal War: City and Technique in Jacques Ellul and Cormac McCarthy”

11am – Thomas Britt, “Cormac McCarthy and Earth”

11:40am – Jamie Davies, “Of Certain Frail Figures of Justice”

12pm – John Vanderheide, “Adaptations of the Kafkaesque in Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger

12:40pm – Nick Ruiz, Ph.D, “When the Man Comes Around”

 

 

 

No Country For Old Men Cormac McCarthy First Edition Signed

 

 

 

 

   

an international and interdisciplinary journal of postmodern cultural sound, text and image

 ISSN 1552-5112

 

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[1] Cash, Johnny. “The Man Comes Around” from the album American IV: The Man Comes Around. American Recording Co. 2002