Academic Scientific JournalsThe Depiction of the American West in Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses
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the myth of the American West,, the Frontier, All the Pretty HorsesAbstract
The paper examines the myth of the American West presented in C. McCarthy’s novel All the Pretty Horses. The aim of the analysis is to show the differences between the common image of the region and the one presented in the novel.
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