02441nam 2200589 450 991082173060332120230621010131.00-8263-5680-X(CKB)3710000000609694(EBL)4436040(SSID)ssj0001628149(PQKBManifestationID)16370055(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001628149(PQKBWorkID)14823724(PQKB)10176561(MiAaPQ)EBC4436040(OCoLC)943892044(MdBmJHUP)muse51985(Au-PeEL)EBL4436040(CaPaEBR)ebr11169657(CaONFJC)MIL901995(EXLCZ)99371000000060969420160615h20162016 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrTrue and living prophet of destruction Cormac McCarthy and modernity /Nicholas MonkAlbuquerque, New Mexico :University of New Mexico Press,2016.©20161 online resource (xviii, 278 pages)Includes index.0-8263-5679-6 Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-259) and index.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.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."Civilization, Modern, in literatureViolence in literatureModernism (Literature)United StatesCivilization, Modern, in literature.Violence in literature.Modernism (Literature)813/.54Monk Nicholas866357MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821730603321True and living prophet of destruction4125319UNINA