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UNINA9910954343803321 |
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Autore |
Josyph Peter |
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Titolo |
Cormac McCarthy's house : reading McCarthy without walls / / by Peter Josyph |
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Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2013 |
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ISBN |
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9780292748866 |
0292748868 |
9780292745285 |
0292745281 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (305 p.) |
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Collana |
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Southwestern writers collection series |
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Soggetti |
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Western stories - Criticism and interpretation |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-274) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Illustrations""; ""Part One. Excursions and Exchanges""; ""Judging Blood Meridian Or The Evening Redness in the West by Its Cover""; ""A Walk with Wesley Morgan through Suttree's Knoxville""; ""Believing in The Sunset Limited: A Talk with Tom Cornford on Directing McCarthy""; """Now Let's Talk about The Crossing": An Exchange with Marty Priola""; ""Part Two. The Author as Visual Motif""; ""Cormac McCarthy's House: A Memoir""; ""Chapter One. Resolution 158""; ""Chapter Two. Finding the Where""; ""Chapter Three. Collaborating with God""; ""Chapter Four. Because the Easel Rocks"" |
""Chapter Five. San Jacinto Plaza""""Chapter Six. Cormac McCarthy's House""; ""Epilogue. Two Hemingways""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Index"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Novelist Cormac McCarthy’s brilliant and challenging work demands deep engagement from his readers. In Cormac McCarthy’s House, author, painter, photographer, and actor-director Peter Josyph draws on a wide range of experience to pose provocative, unexpected questions about McCarthy’s work, how it is achieved, and how it is interpreted. As a visual artist, Josyph wrestles with the challenge of rendering McCarthy’s former home in El Paso as a symbol of a great writer’s workshop. As an actor and filmmaker, he analyzes the high art |
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of Tommy Lee Jones in The Sunset Limited and No Country for Old Men. Invoking the recent suicide of a troubled friend, he grapples with the issue of “our brother’s keeper” in The Crossing and The Sunset Limited. But for Josyph, reading the finest prose-poet of our day is a project into which he invites many voices, and his investigations include a talk with Mark Morrow about photographing McCarthy while he was writing Blood Meridian; an in-depth conversation with director Tom Cornford on the challenges of staging The Sunset Limited and The Stonemason; a walk through the streets, waterfronts, and hidden haunts of Suttree with McCarthy scholar and Knoxville resident Wesley Morgan; insights from the cast of The Gardener’s Son about a controversial scene in that film; actress Miriam Colon’s perspective on portraying the Dueña Alfonsa opposite Matt Damon in All the Pretty Horses; and a harsh critique of Josyph’s views on The Crossing by McCarthy scholar Marty Priola, which leads to a sometimes heated debate. Illustrated with thirty-one photographs, Josyph’s unconventional journeys into the genius of Cormac McCarthy form a new, highly personal way of appreciating literary greatness. |
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