Tag Archives: evolution
Suttree
Suttree influences
from books-and-movies-that-influenced-the-writing-of-suttree thread at http://www.cormacmccarthy.com
Davis Grubbs
George Washington Harris
Sut Lovingood: Yarns Spun By a Nat’ral Born Durn’d Fool
William Faulkner
Sutpen in Absalom, Absalom! and The Reivers
William Shakespeare
(characters liked by Faulkner) Falstaff, Prince Hal, Nick Bottom, Mercutio, Huck Finn, Jim
Falstaff at Herne’s Oak, from “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” Act V, Scene v, James Stephanoff, 1832. Via Wikimedia.
Scene from A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1848-1851). Titania and Bottom. Edwin Henry Landseer (1802–1873). Via Wikimedia.
Joseph Conrad
Dante Alighieri
James Joyce
Nelson Algren
The Neon Wilderness and A Walk on the Wild Side
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walt Whitman
T.S. Eliot
W. B. Yeats
John Keats
Hermann Hesse
Mark Twain
Herman Melville
H. L. Mencken
(Henry Louis Mencken) See The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1907)
Scopes Trial (1925)
The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes/The Scopes Monkey Trial and Tennessee’s Butler Act. (On human evolution)