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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821730603321

Autore

Monk Nicholas

Titolo

True and living prophet of destruction : Cormac McCarthy and modernity / / Nicholas Monk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albuquerque, New Mexico : , : University of New Mexico Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-8263-5680-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 278 pages)

Disciplina

813/.54

Soggetti

Civilization, Modern, in literature

Violence in literature

Modernism (Literature) - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-259) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Modernity's "I" and the civilized barbarian -- From nihilism to globalization -- Modernity and the West: Blood meridian, The border trilogy, and No country for old men -- Modernity and the South: the Appalachian novels, The gardener's son, and The stonemason -- Violence fast and slow -- Learning from Cormac McCarthy -- A resonance like music -- Journeys of spiritual formation -- The earth shall weep -- The beautiful image -- Doing things with words -- Marginal worlds, marginal languages.

Sommario/riassunto

Monk examines the experience of engaging with McCarthy's fiction in order to reveal why so many people report that "reading Cormac McCarthy changed my life."