UID:
edocfu_9959695698002883
Format:
1 online resource (xxii, 201 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-107-48715-3
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3-8425-2448-X
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1-139-08743-6
Series Statement:
Cambridge companions to literature
Uniform Title:
Cambridge companions online.
Content:
Cormac McCarthy both embodies and redefines the notion of the artist as outsider. His fiction draws on recognizable American themes and employs dense philosophical and theological subtexts, challenging readers by depicting the familiar as inscrutably foreign. The essays in this Companion offer a sophisticated yet concise introduction to McCarthy's difficult and provocative work. The contributors, an international team of McCarthy scholars, analyze some of the most well-known and commonly taught novels - Outer Dark, Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses and The Road - while providing detailed treatments of McCarthy's work in cinema, including the many adaptations of his novels to film. Designed for scholars, teachers and general readers, and complete with a chronology and bibliography for further reading, this Companion is an essential reference for anyone interested in gaining a deeper understanding of one of America's most celebrated living novelists.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).
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Chronology of McCarthy's life and works --
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Introduction.
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Histories, novels, ideas: Cormac McCarthy and the art of philosophy /
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Influence and Innovation:
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McCarthy's heroes and the will to truth /
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Modernism, postmodernism, and language: McCarthy's style /
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Beginnings in the American South:
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McCarthy, Tennessee, and the southern gothic /
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McCarthy and the uses of philosophy in the Tennessee novels /
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The Move Westward:
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History and the problem of evil in McCarthy's western novels /
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The Border Trilogy, The Road, and the Cold War /
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The Novels:
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Outer Dark and romantic naturalism /
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Blood Meridian and the poetics of violence /
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All the Pretty Horses, the border, and ethnic encounter /
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The quest for God in The Road /
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Themes and Issues:
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McCarthy and naturalism /
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McCarthy and film /
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McCarthy's heroes: revisiting masculinity /
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-64480-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-01815-3
Language:
English
