'The same authority as God' : the U.S. presidency and executive power in the works of Thomas Pynchon, Philip Roth and Cormac McCarthy
This thesis aims to interrogate the role and representation of the United States presidency, presidential figures and avatars, and the question of executive power more generally, in the works of Thomas Pynchon, Philip Roth and Cormac McCarthy. Observing a gap in current criticism of these authors, a...
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Durham University
2015
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Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669209 |