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Overcoming Sin: Comparing Dante’s Inferno and the New Testament to Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark and Child of God

There are many textual and thematic similarities between Dante’s Inferno and Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark. There are also significant textual similarities between the New Testament and McCarthy’s third novel, Child of God. Juxtaposing Outer Dark and Child of God to Inferno and the New Testament, respectively, suggests a common trope that redemption requires characters’ name and repent of sin.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:uno.edu/oai:scholarworks.uno.edu:td-3266
Date13 May 2016
CreatorsHanson, Tammy S
PublisherScholarWorks@UNO
Source SetsUniversity of New Orleans
Detected LanguageEnglish
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SourceUniversity of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

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