City of Glass and the Frontier Myth: Logocentric Project and Adamic Transformation
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The aim of essay is to understand how the core elements of the frontier myth manifest in City of Glass. To understand this, I will explore the relationship among the frontier myth, the logocentric project, and Adamic rebirth in City of Glass. While the novel is regarded by many scholars as a postmodernist version of the detective genre, it can be considered as a variant of the frontier narrative because it evokes the central elements of the myth such as logocentricism, prelapsarian innocence and Adamic transfiguration. The novel’s preoccupation with a search for order and truth suggests that it aligns itself with the frontier project that attempts to create an ordered civilization from a chaotic wilderness. More particularly, Quinn’s attempt to restore logocentricity, prelapsarian language, and Adamic rebirth corresponds with a frontier figure’s civilization project in the frontier myth.
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The aim of essay is to understand how the core elements of the frontier myth manifest in City of Glass. To understand this, I will explore the relationship among the frontier myth, the logocentric project, and Adamic rebirth in City of Glass. While the novel is regarded by many scholars as a postmodernist version of the detective genre, it can be considered as a variant of the frontier narrative because it evokes the central elements of the myth such as logocentricism, prelapsarian innocence and Adamic transfiguration. The novel’s preoccupation with a search for order and truth suggests that it aligns itself with the frontier project that attempts to create an ordered civilization from a chaotic wilderness. More particularly, Quinn’s attempt to restore logocentricity, prelapsarian language, and Adamic rebirth corresponds with a frontier figure’s civilization project in the frontier myth.
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