Russell M Hillier
Biographic Data
| ID | 3098529 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Russell M Hillier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Russell M |
| FAMILY NAME | Hillier |
| SIGNATURE | HILLIER R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Providence College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5762-2685 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Damned Outrage”: Miasma and the Tragedy of Injustice in Cormac McCarthy’s The Gardener’s Son
Bending Toward Justice: Moral Failure, Tragic Recognition, and Confession in Cormac McCarthy’s The Stonemason
Scholarly commentary on Cormac McCarthy’s The Stonemason has generally coalesced around the idea that Ben Telfair’s tragic flaw negatively impacts his family, although an understanding of precisely how Ben loses his way may vary. First, the article shows how Papaw’s allusion to the works of Theodore Parker and Martin Luther King, Jr., helps clarify Ben’s moral failure. After Ben’s conversion and turn toward justice, McCarthy’s drama suggests comi…
Something Like Amusement: Comedy and Humor in Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree
Before Cormac McCarthy pictured a deadpan John Joel Glanton in Blood Meridian drily respond to a juggling gypsy with the withering observation, “Aint that the drizzlin shits” (94), and before Lacey
Things Can Always Get Worse”: Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield , William Shakespeare’s King Lear , and the Comitragic Arc of the Mussel-Brailing Interlude on the French Broad River in Cormac McCart…
Reading and Reworking the Bard in Amherst, Massachusetts: Allusions to William Shakespeare’s Tragedies in Three of Emily Dickinson’s Poems
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author
A Literary Forerunner to Judge Holden in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian: S. Behrman in Frank Norris’s The Octopus
The Quadrant and the Sextant: Taking the Measure of the Cosmos in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
Her Eyes Were Huge and Hungered”: Mother Love and the Decline of Rinthy Holme in Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark
In Cormac McCarthy’s third novel Outer Dark (1968), Culla and Rinthy Holme, a brother and sister, commit incest. Rinthy conceives and, in a backwoods cabin, she gives birth to their child or “chap”
From Dublin, Ireland, to Vestal, Tennessee: Snowfall and Memory in James Joyce’s “The Dead” and the Third Part of Cormac McCarthy’s The Orchard Keeper
Scholars have acknowledged Cormac McCarthy’s long-standing admiration for James Joyce and McCarthy’s indebtedness to the great Irish writer in his own work.1 In David Kushner’s 2007 interview with
In the Grip of Grue”: The Fascination with Horror in Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author
Hang Loose”: The Ethos and Influence of Oceanfrog Frazer in Cormac McCarthy's Suttree
Cormac McCarthy's stated purpose in writing Suttree was to present a grand humanistic vision of individuals who exist as “the embodiment of a single soul.” The essay explores a seemingly minor character, Oceanfrog Frazer, who elicits the novel's deepest moral concerns. His words and actions express an exemplary ethos of charity and openness toward others that represents the best of what humans can be. The essay first examines Oceanfrog's “jauntin…
Nothing’s Forever”: Destruction, Creation, Connection, and Miltonic Influence in Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger and Stella Maris
The article proposes that engagement with John Milton's Paradise Lost in Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger and Stella Maris furnishes a clue to comprehending the duology. These twin volumes present an extraordinary brother and sister, Bobby and Alicia Western, as a new Adam and Eve in a vitiated world. The narrative suggests that the Western siblings' unconsummated love and the underlying theme of the absent child they never had make their circumst…
Lucretius, Seneca the Younger, Aulus Gellius, Justus Lipsius, and Shakespeare: The Reshaping of a Classical Topos in The Tempest
Cold Enough for Ye?”: The Chilling Effect of Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God
Cormac McCarthy's third novel, Child of God (1973), tells the unpalatable story of the descent of Lester Ballard into voyeurism, necrophilia, and murder; yet, as scholars have observed, “the novel
Shadowing Culla Holme in Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark
The Significance of Dunsinane in Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Ireland , George Buchanan’s Rerum Scoticarum Historia , and Shakespeare’s Macbeth
Throughout his Scottish Play Shakespeare is careful to indicate various structures, landmarks, and places of cultural significance germane to the plot, be it the Macbeths’ castle at “Inverness” (1
Ever Man Loves Peace and a Old Man Best of All ”: Revisiting Uncle Arthur “Ather” Ownby and the Government Tank in Cormac McCarthy’s The Orchard Keeper
The essay explores two principal aspects of The Orchard Keeper (1965), Cormac McCarthy’s first published novel. It first examines McCarthy’s sensitively realized portrait of the old hermit Uncle Arthur “Ather” Ownby, whose mistakes, family loss, and guilt inspire him to turn to nature, arrive at a new philosophical and spiritual understanding of the cosmos, and defend his green world at a considerable personal cost. Second, an explication of the …
Then I Wouldn’t be Unneighborly Neither”: A Reading of Cormac McCarthy’s The Orchard Keeper in Light of the Influence of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Ethan Brand”
Archival evidence in an early manuscript of Cormac McCarthy’s The Orchard Keeper reveals that not only Hawthorne in general, but also Hawthorne’s tale “Ethan Brand” in particular, was in McCarthy’s mind during the process of composition. This essay provides a reading of The Orchard Keeper that takes into account the influence of Hawthorne’s accomplished short story. Both Hawthorne’s classic tale and McCarthy’s debut novel are preoccupied with the…
The Purpose of Lutheran and Kafkaesque References in Cormac McCarthy’s The Sunset Limited
Death Be Not Proud: The Art of Holy Attention
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Immediacy in John Donne’s Holy Sonnets
John Donne’s Holy Sonnets represent the most visible exploration in his poetry of the fault-lines between his early Catholicism and his experience of the English Reformed Church into which he was later ordained. The essay focuses upon one aspect of the strain, recorded within the Holy Sonnets, which emerged from the loss of the Catholic apparatus of grace, namely the problem of God’s immediacy. By the term “immediacy” I refer to the removal of th…
Returning to John Donne
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Each the Other's World Entire”: Intertextuality and the Worth of Textual Remembrance in Cormac McCarthy's The Road
In The Road Cormac McCarthy's coalescence of the narrative voice with the man's consciousness grants readers insight into the man's desperate struggle to locate or rely upon anything meaningful, an ordeal that often has him draw upon his inner reserves. Through textual remembrance, the man invokes works from his and our old, vanishing world and, engaging with them, he interrogates the possibility of sustaining significance and value in a new, bro…
The Poetics and Politics of Youth in Milton’s England
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The Judge's Molar: Infanticide and the Meteorite in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Milton's Messiah: The son of God in the works of John Milton
In the realm of Milton scholarship there have been extensive studies of Milton's representations of God, Satan, the angels, Adam and Eve, and Chaos, among others. This book provides the first comprehensive book-length analysis of the nature and significance of the Son of God in Milton's poetry and theology. The book engages with biblical and Patristic theology, Reformation and post-Reformation thought, and the original Latin of the treatise De Do…
Each the Other's World Entire”: Intertextuality and the Worth of Textual Remembrance in Cormac McCarthy's The Road
In The Road Cormac McCarthy's coalescence of the narrative voice with the man's consciousness grants readers insight into the man's desperate struggle to locate or rely upon anything meaningful, an ordeal that often has him draw upon his inner reserves. Through textual remembrance, the man invokes works from his and our old, vanishing world and, engaging with them, he interrogates the possibility of sustaining significance and value in a new, bro…
So Shall the World Goe On”: A Providentialist Reading of Books Eleven and Twelve of Paradise Lost
The essay provides a reading of Books Eleven and Twelve ofParadise Lostthat grants that the archangel Michael's vision-narrative embodies an exposition of the epic's professed “great Argument” to assert eternal providence. In the course of the revelation on the specular Mount, Adam, through a process of trial and error, is schooled “to learn/True patience” by looking beyond the accidents of fallen history to the presence of grace and by reforming…
"In a Dark Parody" of John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress: The Presence of Subversive Allegory in Cormac McCarthy's Outer Dark
Crystal Beards and Dantean Influence in Jack London's “To Build a Fire (II)”
Milton's Messiah: The son of God in the works of John Milton
In the realm of Milton scholarship there have been extensive studies of Milton's representations of God, Satan, the angels, Adam and Eve, and Chaos, among others. This book provides the first comprehensive book-length analysis of the nature and significance of the Son of God in Milton's poetry and theology. The book engages with biblical and Patristic theology, Reformation and post-Reformation thought, and the original Latin of the treatise De Do…
So Shall the World Goe On”: A Providentialist Reading of Books Eleven and Twelve of Paradise Lost
The essay provides a reading of Books Eleven and Twelve ofParadise Lostthat grants that the archangel Michael's vision-narrative embodies an exposition of the epic's professed “great Argument” to assert eternal providence. In the course of the revelation on the specular Mount, Adam, through a process of trial and error, is schooled “to learn/True patience” by looking beyond the accidents of fallen history to the presence of grace and by reforming…
The Judge's Molar: Infanticide and the Meteorite in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
The Poetics and Politics of Youth in Milton’s England
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Each the Other's World Entire”: Intertextuality and the Worth of Textual Remembrance in Cormac McCarthy's The Road
In The Road Cormac McCarthy's coalescence of the narrative voice with the man's consciousness grants readers insight into the man's desperate struggle to locate or rely upon anything meaningful, an ordeal that often has him draw upon his inner reserves. Through textual remembrance, the man invokes works from his and our old, vanishing world and, engaging with them, he interrogates the possibility of sustaining significance and value in a new, bro…
Returning to John Donne
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Death Be Not Proud: The Art of Holy Attention
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Immediacy in John Donne’s Holy Sonnets
John Donne’s Holy Sonnets represent the most visible exploration in his poetry of the fault-lines between his early Catholicism and his experience of the English Reformed Church into which he was later ordained. The essay focuses upon one aspect of the strain, recorded within the Holy Sonnets, which emerged from the loss of the Catholic apparatus of grace, namely the problem of God’s immediacy. By the term “immediacy” I refer to the removal of th…
The Purpose of Lutheran and Kafkaesque References in Cormac McCarthy’s The Sunset Limited
The Significance of Dunsinane in Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Ireland , George Buchanan’s Rerum Scoticarum Historia , and Shakespeare’s Macbeth
Throughout his Scottish Play Shakespeare is careful to indicate various structures, landmarks, and places of cultural significance germane to the plot, be it the Macbeths’ castle at “Inverness” (1
Ever Man Loves Peace and a Old Man Best of All ”: Revisiting Uncle Arthur “Ather” Ownby and the Government Tank in Cormac McCarthy’s The Orchard Keeper
The essay explores two principal aspects of The Orchard Keeper (1965), Cormac McCarthy’s first published novel. It first examines McCarthy’s sensitively realized portrait of the old hermit Uncle Arthur “Ather” Ownby, whose mistakes, family loss, and guilt inspire him to turn to nature, arrive at a new philosophical and spiritual understanding of the cosmos, and defend his green world at a considerable personal cost. Second, an explication of the …
Then I Wouldn’t be Unneighborly Neither”: A Reading of Cormac McCarthy’s The Orchard Keeper in Light of the Influence of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Ethan Brand”
Archival evidence in an early manuscript of Cormac McCarthy’s The Orchard Keeper reveals that not only Hawthorne in general, but also Hawthorne’s tale “Ethan Brand” in particular, was in McCarthy’s mind during the process of composition. This essay provides a reading of The Orchard Keeper that takes into account the influence of Hawthorne’s accomplished short story. Both Hawthorne’s classic tale and McCarthy’s debut novel are preoccupied with the…
Lucretius, Seneca the Younger, Aulus Gellius, Justus Lipsius, and Shakespeare: The Reshaping of a Classical Topos in The Tempest
Cold Enough for Ye?”: The Chilling Effect of Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God
Cormac McCarthy's third novel, Child of God (1973), tells the unpalatable story of the descent of Lester Ballard into voyeurism, necrophilia, and murder; yet, as scholars have observed, “the novel
Shadowing Culla Holme in Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark
Her Eyes Were Huge and Hungered”: Mother Love and the Decline of Rinthy Holme in Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark
In Cormac McCarthy’s third novel Outer Dark (1968), Culla and Rinthy Holme, a brother and sister, commit incest. Rinthy conceives and, in a backwoods cabin, she gives birth to their child or “chap”
From Dublin, Ireland, to Vestal, Tennessee: Snowfall and Memory in James Joyce’s “The Dead” and the Third Part of Cormac McCarthy’s The Orchard Keeper
Scholars have acknowledged Cormac McCarthy’s long-standing admiration for James Joyce and McCarthy’s indebtedness to the great Irish writer in his own work.1 In David Kushner’s 2007 interview with
In the Grip of Grue”: The Fascination with Horror in Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author
Hang Loose”: The Ethos and Influence of Oceanfrog Frazer in Cormac McCarthy's Suttree
Cormac McCarthy's stated purpose in writing Suttree was to present a grand humanistic vision of individuals who exist as “the embodiment of a single soul.” The essay explores a seemingly minor character, Oceanfrog Frazer, who elicits the novel's deepest moral concerns. His words and actions express an exemplary ethos of charity and openness toward others that represents the best of what humans can be. The essay first examines Oceanfrog's “jauntin…
Nothing’s Forever”: Destruction, Creation, Connection, and Miltonic Influence in Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger and Stella Maris
The article proposes that engagement with John Milton's Paradise Lost in Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger and Stella Maris furnishes a clue to comprehending the duology. These twin volumes present an extraordinary brother and sister, Bobby and Alicia Western, as a new Adam and Eve in a vitiated world. The narrative suggests that the Western siblings' unconsummated love and the underlying theme of the absent child they never had make their circumst…
Things Can Always Get Worse”: Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield , William Shakespeare’s King Lear , and the Comitragic Arc of the Mussel-Brailing Interlude on the French Broad River in Cormac McCart…
Reading and Reworking the Bard in Amherst, Massachusetts: Allusions to William Shakespeare’s Tragedies in Three of Emily Dickinson’s Poems
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author
A Literary Forerunner to Judge Holden in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian: S. Behrman in Frank Norris’s The Octopus
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