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Titolo |
The Cambridge companion to Cormac McCarthy / / edited by Steven Frye, California State University, Bakersfield [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
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1-107-48715-3 |
3-8425-2448-X |
1-139-08743-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxii, 201 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Cambridge companions to literature |
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LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Chronology of McCarthy's life and works -- Introduction. ; 1. Histories, novels, ideas: Cormac McCarthy and the art of philosophy / Steven Frye -- ; Part I. Influence and Innovation: ; 2. McCarthy's heroes and the will to truth / Linda Woodson; ; 3. Modernism, postmodernism, and language: McCarthy's style / Phillip A. Snyder and Delys W. Snyder -- ; Part II. Beginnings in the American South: ; 4. McCarthy, Tennessee, and the southern gothic / Lydia R. Cooper; ; 5. McCarthy and the uses of philosophy in the Tennessee novels / Brian Evenson -- ; Part III. The Move Westward: ; 6. History and the problem of evil in McCarthy's western novels / Timothy Parrish; ; 7. The Border Trilogy, The Road, and the Cold War / Pierre Lagayette -- ; Part IV. The Novels: ; 8. Outer Dark and romantic naturalism / James R. Giles; ; 9. Blood Meridian and the poetics of violence / Steven Frye; ; 10. All the Pretty Horses, the border, and ethnic encounter / Nicholas Monk; ; 11. The quest for God in The Road / Allen Josephs -- ; Part V. Themes and Issues: ; 12. McCarthy and naturalism / Eric Carl Link; ; 13. McCarthy and film / Stacey Peebles; ; 14. McCarthy's heroes: revisiting masculinity / John Dudley. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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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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