Cormac McCarthy’s Aesthet(h)ics

Manifest Destiny and American Identity in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian

McCarthy scholarship has predominantly tended to stress the writer’s revisionism with regard to his rendering of the myth of the American West in Blood Meridian (1985). McCarthy’s novel has beenmainlyhailed as a critique of the violence of manifest destiny. This study aims to delineate aspects of McCarthy’s narrative which resist the predominant view of him as a revisionist. In this re...

“Because we carry the fire.” : An Eco-Marxist Reading of Cannibalism in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road

In his seminal ecocritical volume, Ecocriticism: the New Critical Idiom, Greg Garrard writes the defining ecocritical treatise on ―Apocalypse‖ and its thematic implementation in literature ranging from the Bible to contemporary works of fiction and cautionary nonfiction. While Garrard makes a point of identifying literary apocalypticism as having been traditionally embraced by socially and econ...

Hell On Earth: A Modern Day Inferno in Cormac McCarthy's The Road

Core outcome research measures in anal cancer (CORMAC): protocol for systematic review, qualitative interviews and Delphi survey to develop a core outcome set in anal cancer

INTRODUCTION The incidence of anal squamous cell carcinoma (ASCC) has increased threefold in the last 30 years. Initial treatment is chemoradiotherapy, associated with short-term and long-term side effects. Future therapy innovations aim to reduce morbidity in treatment of early tumours while maintaining treatment efficacy, and to escalate treatment intensity in locally advanced tumours with ac...

Summary of the 5th edition of the Renal Association Clinical Practice Guidelines (2009-2012).

Robert Mactier, Simon Davies, Chris Dudley, Paul Harden, Colin Jones, Suren Kanagasundaram, Andrew Lewington, Donald Richardson, Maarten Taal, Peter Andrews Richard Baker, Cormac Breen, Neill Duncan, Ken Farrington, Richard Fluck, Colin Geddes, David Goldsmith, Nic Hoenich, Stephen Holt, Alan Jardine, Sarah Jenkins, Mick Kumwenda, Elizabeth Lindley, Mark MacGregor, Ashraf Mikhail, Edward Sharpl...