“An enormous sadness touched with rue”: The pathos of oneness in Cormac McCarthy's Suttree

• Published in: Orbis litterarum Vol. 79; no. 5; pp. 432 - 448
• Main Author: Hillier, Russell M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Malden Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.10.2024
• Subjects: Cormac McCarthy; Friedrich Nietzsche; literary naturalism; pathos of distance; pathos of oneness; Suttree; William James

In Cormac McCarthy's Suttree, the novel's titular protagonist Cornelius Suttree resists his father's self‐righteous conviction in the Nietzschean “pathos of distance” by living among Knoxville's helpless and destitute and testing the theory that “there is nothing occurring in the...