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Mrs. John Curtis McCarthy, the former Miss Mary Ellen Grieff
No full textMrs. John Curtis McCarthy, the former Miss Mary Ellen Grieff.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1940s/13083/thumbnail.jp
Letter from Catherine McCarthy to Hubert Creekmore (18 March 1955)
No full textMcCarthy writes on Harcourt, Brace, and Company letterhead from New York City to Creekmore in Jackson, Mississippi, regarding selections from Ellen Glasgow, Katherine Anne Porter, and Peter Tyler for a southern writing anthology. Includes envelope.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/creekmore/1236/thumbnail.jp
Dennis, Ellen, Baby and Daniel McCarthy headstone in St. Francis of Assisi Cemetery
No full textDennis, Ellen, Baby and Daniel McCarthy headstone in St. Francis of Assisi Cemetery in Outer Cove
Cormac Mccarthy and the Writing of American Spaces
No full textIn Cormac McCarthy and the Writing of American Spaces Andrew Estes examines ideas about the land as they emerge in the later fiction of this important contemporary author. McCarthy's texts are shown to be part of larger narratives about American environments. Against the backdrop of the emerging discipline of environmental criticism, Estes investigates the way space has been constructed in U.S. American writing. Cormac McCarthy is found to be heir to diametrically opposed concepts of space: as something Americans embraced as either overwhelmingly positive and reinvigorating or as rather negative and threatening. McCarthy's texts both replicate this binary thinking about American environments and challenge readers to reconceive traditional ways of seeing space. Breaking new ground as to how literary landscapes and spaces are critically assessed this study seeks to examine the many detailed descriptions of the physical world in McCarthy on their own terms. Adding to so-called 'second wave' environmental criticism, it reaches beyond an earlier, limited understanding of the environment as 'nature' to consider both natural landscapes and built environments. Chapter one discusses the field of environmental criticism in reference to McCarthy while chapter two offers a brief narrative of conceptions of space in the U.S. Chapter three highlights trends in McCarthy criticism. Chapters four through eight provide close readings of McCarthy's later novels, from Blood Meridian to The Road.Intro -- Cormac McCarthy and the Writing of American Spaces -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Environmental Criticism and Cormac McCarthy -- 1.1. Environmental Criticism/Ecocriticism -- 1.2. Machine/Garden -- 1.3. Nature/Culture -- 1.4. Biocentrism/Anthropocentrism -- 1.5. Space/Place -- 1.6. Wilderness/Civilization -- 2. A Debate in American Literature: The Nature of U.S. Spaces -- 2.1. Columbus and the Edenic Trend -- 2.2. From the Best of Places to the Worst of Places -- 2.3. Vespucci and the Demonic Trend -- 2.4. "The Greatest Fact": Buffon, De Pauw and Raynal -- 2.5. The Puritans -- 2.6. Hawthorne -- 2.7. Later Manifestations of the Positive View: Crèvecoeur -- 2.8. Jefferson: "The Cultivators of the Earth Are the Most Virtuous Citizens -- 2.9. Emerson -- 2.10. Frederick Jackson Turner -- 2.11. The Dialectic of American Spaces -- 3. McCarthy Criticism -- 3.1. McCarthy as Author: Beginnings of Secondary Literature -- 3.2. Close Readings of Important Secondary Literature -- 3.2.1. John Wegner on The Border Trilogy -- 3.2.2. K. Wesley Berry on The Orchard Keeper -- 3.2.3. John Cant on The Road -- 3.2.4. The Position of the Present Study in Reference to Berry and Cant -- 3.2.5. Georg Guillemin's Ecopastoralism -- 3.2.6. Sara L. Spurgeon on Blood Meridian -- 4. Blood Meridian -- 4.1. The Environment in Blood Meridian -- 4.2. Judge Holden's View -- 4.3. The Consequences of Judge Holden's View: A Changing Environment -- 4.4. Optical Democracy -- 5. All the Pretty Horses -- 5.1. From the World of Blood Meridian to That of All the Pretty Horses -- 5.2. Space According to the Edenic Trend -- 5.3. Two Pictures of Horses: A Developing Notion of Wilderness -- 5.4. Space According to the Demonic Trend -- 5.5. Evil in Texas Versus Evil in Mexico -- 5.6. A Definition of Country in McCarthy -- 5.7. A New Way Forward -- 6. The Crossing6.1. Borders -- 6.2. New Country -- 6.3. Language and the Land -- 6.4. The Trinity Test -- 7. No Country for Old Men -- 8. The Road -- 8.1. Apocalypse in American Literature -- 8.2. Environmental Criticism and (Post-)Apocalypse -- 8.3. A Close Reading of The Road: Ideas of the Natural and Technology -- 8.3.1. Technology is Always Culturally Embedded -- 8.3.2. Nature as a Cultural Construct -- 8.3.3. Good Guys Versus Bad Guys -- 8.4. Rock City -- 8.5. The End of The Road: Biocentric Maps -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- IndexIn Cormac McCarthy and the Writing of American Spaces Andrew Estes examines ideas about the land as they emerge in the later fiction of this important contemporary author. McCarthy's texts are shown to be part of larger narratives about American environments. Against the backdrop of the emerging discipline of environmental criticism, Estes investigates the way space has been constructed in U.S. American writing. Cormac McCarthy is found to be heir to diametrically opposed concepts of space: as something Americans embraced as either overwhelmingly positive and reinvigorating or as rather negative and threatening. McCarthy's texts both replicate this binary thinking about American environments and challenge readers to reconceive traditional ways of seeing space. Breaking new ground as to how literary landscapes and spaces are critically assessed this study seeks to examine the many detailed descriptions of the physical world in McCarthy on their own terms. Adding to so-called 'second wave' environmental criticism, it reaches beyond an earlier, limited understanding of the environment as 'nature' to consider both natural landscapes and built environments. Chapter one discusses the field of environmental criticism in reference to McCarthy while chapter two offers a brief narrative of conceptions of space in the U.S. Chapter three highlights trends in McCarthy criticism. Chapters four through eight provide close readings of McCarthy's later novels, from Blood Meridian to The Road.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
McCarthy, Charles A. (Death, 1912-07-29)
No full textAddress: St. Mary Hospital 317 Ellen St.4077/1912Original record filed in drawer labeled 'MCCARTHY-MCDEVITT'
Ketchup and Blood: Documents, Institutions and Effects in the Performances of Paul McCarthy 1974-2013
No full textSince the 1970s, the work of Los Angeles-based artist Paul McCarthy (b. 1945) has included live performance, video, sculpture, kinetic tableaux, and installation. Tracing the development of McCarthy’s work between 1974 and 2013, I undertake a critical discussion of the development of performance in relation to visual art practices. Using one artist’s work as a guide through a number of key discussions in the history of performance art, I argue that performance has influenced every aspect of McCarthy’s artistic practice, and continues to inform critical readings of his work.
My thesis follows the trajectory of McCarthy’s performance practice as it has developed through different contexts. I begin with the early documentation and dissemination of performance in the Los Angeles-based magazine High Performance (1978-83), which established a context for the reception of performance art, and for McCarthy’s early work. I then examine specific examples of McCarthy’s practice in relation to his critical reception: live performances and videos from the 1970s are discussed alongside critical readings of his work influenced by psychoanalysis; and the wider public recognition of McCarthy’s object-based art in the 1980s and early 1990s. I then look more broadly at the recent trend of re-enacting historical performances in the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time project (2011-12), as a mode of engaging with performance history and exploring how histories of ephemeral art are re-iterated over time. Finally, I discuss a number of McCarthy’s recent exhibitions and installations that mobilises a wider consideration of the histories of performance and ephemeral practices in art institutions.
McCarthy’s work is firmly established in the art world, and I argue that his work also provides a significant touchstone for histories of performance. I look historically at how McCarthy’s work has been documented, disseminated, curated, and re-performed, and open wider discussions about ways of engaging with performance history. In turn, I complicate the relationship between performance and the art world; between ephemeral art and object-based art practices; and between scholarly engagements with performance history, and the public presentation of performance in curatorial practices and institutional contexts.This project was funded by a College Studentship from Queen Mary, University of London. Additional financial support for a research trip to Los Angeles in 2012 to undertake primary research and conduct interviews was provided by the Queen Mary Central Research Fund (now the Postgraduate Research Fund). I would also like to acknowledge the support of the Glynne Wickham Scholarship fund, which contributed to travel expenses for a conference presentation at Stanford University in 2013
Author-reader relationship at the site of the work
No full textWithin the format of a critical exegesis and four original works of extended prose fiction, this thesis explores the interaction between the author and reader and argues that literary meaning is the outcome of shifts of power between these two entities. It concludes that because these shifts in power are orchestrated by the author, the author is relevant to understanding how meaning is produced
McCarthy, Ellen Alias Ellen Walsh (Death, 1892-01-08)
No full textAddress: City HospitalAge at death: 38201/Pg 5/1892/F W W/Ireland/Dr. A. F. Bauer/Gilligan & Sons/St. Joseph NewOriginal record filed in drawer labeled 'MCCARTHY-MCDEVITT'
McCarthy, Ellen (Birth, 1878-09-12)
No full textAddress: 130 Water St.5381/Pg.150/1878/F W/Ire./Ire./Mrs. H. Steelman, Mid.Original record filed in drawer labeled 'MCCARTHY-MCDEVITT'
McCarthy, Ellen (Birth, 1875-04-30)
No full textAddress: 18 O.C.1668/Pg.112/1875/F W/Ireland/Ireland/Anna M. Gelhot, Mid.Original record filed in drawer labeled 'MCCARTHY-MCDEVITT'
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