https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hanyang/handle/2021.sw.hanyang/740 2026-07-21T14:53:14Z 2026-07-21T14:53:14Z Kevin Edwin Stadt https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hanyang/handle/2021.sw.hanyang/143175 2022-07-07T04:32:43Z 2015-08-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Sheriff Bell's Bad Faith: A Sartrean Perspective on Freedom and Anguish in McCarthy's No Country for Old Men Authors: Kevin Edwin Stadt Abstract: Much critical discussion of Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men centers on Sheriff Ed Tom Bell’s crisis. The varied interpretations of the nature of Bell’s struggle leads some critics to view him as a hero or figure of transcendence, while others read him as a confused, impotent failure. This study re-frames the conversation in new language and analyzes his thoughts and actions in light of Jean-Paul Sartre’s concept of bad faith. Reconceptualizing Bell’s conflicts in terms of Sartrean philosophy allows us to see the ways this central character denies human freedom and responsibility.

2015-08-01T00:00:00Z Kevin Edwin Stadt https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hanyang/handle/2021.sw.hanyang/143532 2022-07-07T05:42:08Z 2015-04-01T00:00:00Z

Title: "Art becomes an attunement to the demonic": Confronting the Hyperobject in McCarthy's No Country for Old Men Authors: Kevin Edwin Stadt Abstract: The protagonist of Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men, Sheriff Bell, says or thinks “I dont know” or some variation of it around sixty times, a striking fact that has been largely overlooked in McCarthy scholarship. This study attempts to illuminate Bell’s refrain of “I don’t know” by analyzing the drug plague in the novel as what Timothy Morton’s object-oriented ontology calls a “hyperobject.” Reading the drug scourge as hyperobject and the villain Anton Chigurh as its avatar allows us to gain insight into the patterns of hypocrisy, weakness, and lameness in the novel’s characters.

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