AESTHETICS OF MINIMALIST NEO-WESTERN CRIME THRILLER: READING OF CORMAC MCCARTHY’S NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

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Vikas Manohar Zunjarrao

Minimalism, Crime Thriller, Postmodernism, New Aesthetics

Neo-western Crime Thriller is a recent postmodern reconfiguration of American Crime Thriller that has gained momentum and popularity in the recent decades. This sub-genre of fiction combines minimalism with the features of cowboy thrillers to re-render the historical moments with a postmodern touch. This brand of fiction provides a new experience of reading fiction by giving a grim introspective look into the traditional genre of western fiction. Ellipses, omissions, dropping of speech markers and the imagist mode of description provide the new aesthetic experience in such a narrative. Ironic and subversive invocation of western troops is another tenant of this narrative. This paper makes an attempt to analyse Cormac McCarthy's minimalist postmodern western crime thriller No Country for Old Men to show how this narrative alters the conventional genre. It also scrutinises the novel for its experimental use of narrative, characterization, setting and dialogue to recreate the history of drug related crime of the Mexico, United States border of the 1980s. McCarthy's use of game like narrative is also examine in this paper.

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Vikas Manohar Zunjarrao (May-2024). AESTHETICS OF MINIMALIST NEO-WESTERN CRIME THRILLER: READING OF CORMAC MCCARTHY’S NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, 9(5), 256-259. https://ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRDC001037.pdf

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