The Western Landscape in Cormac McCarthy and Wallace Stegner: Myths of the Frontier, Megan Riley McGilchrist

Автор: Greve Julius
Название: Shreds of Matter: Cormac McCarthy and the Concept of Nature
ISBN: 1512603406 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781512603408
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Описание: Shreds of Matter: Cormac McCarthy and the Concept of Nature offers a nuanced and innovative take on McCarthy's ostensible localism and, along with it, the ecocentric perspective on the world that is assumed by most critics. In opposing the standard interpretations of McCarthy's novels as critical either of persisting American ideologies--such as manifest destiny and imperialism--or of the ways in which humanity has laid waste to planet Earth, Greve instead emphasizes the author's interest both in the history of science and in the mythographical developments of religious discourse. Greve aims to counter traditional interpretations of McCarthy's work and at the same time acknowledge their partial truth, taking into account the work of Friedrich W. J. Schelling and Lorenz Oken, contemporary speculative realism, and Bertrand Westphal's geocriticism. Further, newly discovered archival material sheds light on McCarthy's immersion in the metaphysical question par excellence: What is nature?

Автор: Matthew L. Potts
Название: Cormac McCarthy and the Signs of Sacrament: Literature, Theology, and the Moral of Stories
ISBN: 1501306553 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501306556
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Описание: Although scholars have widely acknowledged the prevalence of religious reference in the work of Cormac McCarthy, this is the first book on the most pervasive religious trope in all his works: the image of sacrament, and in particular, of eucharist. Informed by postmodern theories of narrative and Christian theologies of sacrament, Matthew Potts reads the major novels of Cormac McCarthy in a new and insightful way, arguing that their dark moral significance coheres with the Christian theological tradition in difficult, demanding ways.

Potts develops this account through an argument that integrates McCarthy's fiction with both postmodern theory and contemporary fundamental and sacramental theology. In McCarthy's novels, the human self is always dispossessed of itself, given over to harm, fate, and narrative. But this fundamental dispossession, this vulnerability to violence and signs, is also one uniquely expressed in and articulated by the Christian sacramental tradition.

By reading McCarthy and this theology alongside postmodern accounts of action, identity, subjectivity, and narration, Potts demonstrates how McCarthy exploits Christian theology in order to locate the value of human acts and relations in a way that mimics the dispossessing movement of sacramental signs. This is not to claim McCarthy for theology, necessarily, but it is to assert that McCarthy generates his account of what human goodness might look like in the wake of metaphysical collapse through the explicit use of Christian theology.

Автор: David Cremean
Название: Cormac McCarthy
ISBN: 142983725X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781429837255
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Описание: <p><strong>A great starting point for students seeking an introduction to McCarthy and the critical discussions surrounding his work. </strong></p> <p>In just the last two decades, Cormac McCarthy has ascended terrain as sheer as any depicted in his fiction: from an award-winning ""writer's writer"" with a cult following who had never sold more than a few thousand copies of his first five published novels, he rose to the top of best seller lists, became a popular commodity for Hollywood adaptations, and has gained a reputation as one of the authors who best represent that certain something that is our American culture. </p> <p>Edited by David Cremean, Associate Professor of English at Black Hills State University and an editor for <em>The Cormac McCarthy Journal</em>, this volume in the Critical Insights series presents a variety of new essays on the American writer. For readers who are studying McCarthy for the first time, a biographical sketch relates the details of his life and four essays survey the critical reception of McCarthy's work, explore its cultural and historical contexts, situate McCarthy among his contemporaries, and review key themes in his work. Readers seeking a deeper understanding of the writer can then move on to other essays that explore topics like McCarthy's symbolism; his portrayals of religion, of mysticism, and of violence; the question of the division between a ""Western"" and a ""Southern"" novel; and McCarthy's depiction of character, as he portrays individuals caught up in situations for which they, never mind society, often have no good solution. Works discussed include <em>The Orchard Keeper; The Crossing; No Country for Old Men; Blood Meridian; All The Pretty Horses</em>; and <em>The Road. </em> </p> <p>Rounding out the volume are a chronology of McCarthy's life and a list of his principle publications as well as a bibliography for readers seeking to study this fascinating author in greater depth. </p> <p>Each essay is 2,500 to 5,000 words in length, and all essays conclude with a list of ""Works Cited,"" along with endnotes. Finally, the volume's appendixes offer a section of useful reference resources</p>

Название: Philosophical approaches to cormac mccarthy
ISBN: 1138910651 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138910652
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This book is the first edited collection to explore the role of philosophy in the works of Cormac McCarthy, significantly expanding the scope of philosophical inquiry into McCarthy's writings. There is a strong and growing interest amongst philosophers in the relevance of McCarthy's writings to key debates in contemporary philosophy, for example, debates on trauma and violence, on the relationship between language and world, and the place of the subject within history, temporality, and borders. To this end, the contributors to this collection focus on how McCarthy's writings speak to various philosophical themes, including violence, war, nature, history, materiality, and the environment. Emphasizing the form of McCarthy's texts, the chapters attend to the myriad ways in which his language effects a philosophy of its own, beyond the thematic content of his narratives. Bringing together scholars in contemporary philosophy and McCarthy Studies, and informed by the release of the Cormac McCarthy Papers, the volume reflects on the theoretical relationship between philosophical thinking and literary form. This book will appeal to all scholars working in the rapidly-growing field of McCarthy Studies, Philosophy and Literature, and to philosophers working on a wide range of problems in ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, Philosophy of Nature, and Philosophy of Film across ancient, modern, and contemporary philosophy.

Автор: Broncano Manuel
Название: Religion in Cormac McCarthy S Fiction: Apocryphal Borderlands
ISBN: 1138654477 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138654471
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Описание: This book addresses the religious scope of Cormac McCarthy`s fiction, one of the most controversial issues in studies of his work. Broncano visits McCarthy`s apocryphal narrative of the Southwest in search of the religious foundations that support the narrative architecture of the texts, from Blood Meridian to The Road.

Автор: Greenwood Willard P
Название: Reading Cormac McCarthy
ISBN: 0313356645 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780313356643
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Описание: Chapters include sidebars of interesting information, along with questions to stimulate book club discussions and student research. One of today`s most important novelists, Cormac McCarthy is at the peak of a long and productive career.

Автор: Louise Jillett
Название: Cormac McCarthy`s Borders and Landscapes
ISBN: 1501319116 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501319112
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Описание: Cormac McCarthy’s work is attracting an increasing number of scholars and critics from a range of disciplines within the humanities and beyond, from political philosophy to linguistics and from musicology to various branches of the sciences. Cormac McCarthy’s Borders and Landscapes contributes to this developing field of research, investigating the way McCarthy’s writings speak to other works within the broader fields of American literature, international literature, border literature, and other forms of comparative literature. It also explores McCarthy’s literary antecedents and the movements out of which his work has emerged, such as modernism, romanticism, naturalism, eco-criticism, genre-based literature (western, southern gothic), folkloric traditions and mythology.

Автор: Matthew L. Potts
Название: Cormac McCarthy and the Signs of Sacrament: Literature, Theology, and the Moral of Stories
ISBN: 150133073X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501330735
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Описание: Although scholars have widely acknowledged the prevalence of religious reference in the work of Cormac McCarthy, this is the first book on the most pervasive religious trope in all his works: the image of sacrament, and in particular, of eucharist. Informed by postmodern theories of narrative and Christian theologies of sacrament, Matthew Potts reads the major novels of Cormac McCarthy in a new and insightful way, arguing that their dark moral significance coheres with the Christian theological tradition in difficult, demanding ways.

Potts develops this account through an argument that integrates McCarthy's fiction with both postmodern theory and contemporary fundamental and sacramental theology. In McCarthy's novels, the human self is always dispossessed of itself, given over to harm, fate, and narrative. But this fundamental dispossession, this vulnerability to violence and signs, is also one uniquely expressed in and articulated by the Christian sacramental tradition.

By reading McCarthy and this theology alongside postmodern accounts of action, identity, subjectivity, and narration, Potts demonstrates how McCarthy exploits Christian theology in order to locate the value of human acts and relations in a way that mimics the dispossessing movement of sacramental signs. This is not to claim McCarthy for theology, necessarily, but it is to assert that McCarthy generates his account of what human goodness might look like in the wake of metaphysical collapse through the explicit use of Christian theology.