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Against Nostalgia: Turning The Page of Cormac Mccarthy’s Cities of the Plain

Against Nostalgia: Turning The Page of Cormac Mccarthy’s Cities of the Plain Against Nostalgia: Turning The Page of Cormac Mccarthy’s Cities of the Plain Trenton Hickman Western American Literature, Volume 42, Number 2, Summer 2007, pp. 142-164 (Article) Published by University of Nebraska Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2007.0048 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/535185/summary Access provided at 24 Feb 2020 19:02 GMT from JHU Libraries A g a i n s t N o s t a l g i a : T u r n i n g t h e P a g e o f C o r m a c M c C a r t h y ’s C i t i e s o f t h e P l a i n T r e n t o n H i c k m a n N ostalgia! N o , that is a charge that irritates us profoundly, one that we take particular pains to refute. If nostalgia is the crav­ ing for a past way o f life no longer possible, then we ask our accusers: what vanished way o f life can possibly be represented by our bare, winding passageways? . . . Our passageways have nothing to do with some earlier, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Western American Literature University of Nebraska Press

Against Nostalgia: Turning The Page of Cormac Mccarthy’s Cities of the Plain

Hickman, Trenton
Western American Literature , Volume 42 (2) – Oct 4, 2017
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Against Nostalgia: Turning The Page of Cormac Mccarthy’s Cities of the Plain Trenton Hickman Western American Literature, Volume 42, Number 2, Summer 2007, pp. 142-164 (Article) Published by University of Nebraska Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2007.0048 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/535185/summary Access provided at 24 Feb 2020 19:02 GMT from JHU Libraries A g a i n s t N o s t a l g i a : T u r n i n g t h e P a g e o f C o r m a c M c C a r t h y ’s C i t i e s o f t h e P l a i n T r e n t o n H i c k m a n N ostalgia! N o , that is a charge that irritates us profoundly, one that we take particular pains to refute. If nostalgia is the crav­ ing for a past way o f life no longer possible, then we ask our accusers: what vanished way o f life can possibly be represented by our bare, winding passageways? . . . Our passageways have nothing to do with some earlier,

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