03492oam 22006494a 450 991080936130332120230621005104.00-8263-5671-0(CKB)3710000000631023(EBL)4461668(SSID)ssj0001638564(PQKBManifestationID)16398268(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001638564(PQKBWorkID)14443820(PQKB)10650059(MiAaPQ)EBC4461668(OCoLC)945771889(MdBmJHUP)muse51990(PPN)257062866(EXLCZ)99371000000063102320150819d2016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA Bloody and Barbarous God[electronic resource] The Metaphysics of Cormac McCarthy /Petra MundikAlbuquerque, [New Mexico] :University of New Mexico Press,2016.©20161 online resource (434 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8263-5670-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction. " A direct apprehension of reality": Cormac McCarthy and the perennial philosophy -- "Terra damnata": anticosmic mysticism in Blood meridian -- "Suzerain of the earth": the mystery of the judge in Blood meridian -- "Disciples of a new faith": satanic parody in Blood meridian -- "This luminosity in beings so endarkened": gnostic soteriology in Blood meridian -- "Diverging equity": the nature of existence in All the pretty horses -- "All was fear and marvel": positive and negative epiphanies in The crossing, Book one -- "The illusion of proximity": transcendence and immanence in The crossing, Book two -- "Mourners in the darkness": blindness and insight in The crossing, Book three -- "The right and godmade sun": destiny and salvation in The crossing, Book four -- "Beauty and loss are one": transience and fate in Cities of the plain -- "The bloody and barbarous god": sin and forgiveness in Cities of the plain -- "That man who is all men": the illusory and the real in the epilogue to The border trilogy -- "In all that dark and all that cold": good and evil in No country for old men -- "All things of grace and beauty": the presence of the sacred in The road.A Bloody and Barbarous God investigates the relationship between gnosticism and the perennial philosophy and how these traditions have influenced the later novels of Cormac McCarthy, namely, Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain, No Country for Old Men, and The Road.Spirituality in literatureMysticism in literaturePhilosophy in literatureGnosticism in literatureApocalypse in literatureGood and evil in literatureMetaphysics in literatureSpirituality in literature.Mysticism in literature.Philosophy in literature.Gnosticism in literature.Apocalypse in literature.Good and evil in literature.Metaphysics in literature.813/.54Mundik Petra1674538MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910809361303321A Bloody and Barbarous God4039445UNINA