LEADER 03492oam 22006494a 450 001 9910809361303321 005 20230621005104.0 010 $a0-8263-5671-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000631023 035 $a(EBL)4461668 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001638564 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16398268 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001638564 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14443820 035 $a(PQKB)10650059 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4461668 035 $a(OCoLC)945771889 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse51990 035 $a(PPN)257062866 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000631023 100 $a20150819d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA Bloody and Barbarous God$b[electronic resource] $eThe Metaphysics of Cormac McCarthy /$fPetra Mundik 210 1$aAlbuquerque, [New Mexico] :$cUniversity of New Mexico Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (434 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8263-5670-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction. " 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. 330 $aA 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. 606 $aSpirituality in literature 606 $aMysticism in literature 606 $aPhilosophy in literature 606 $aGnosticism in literature 606 $aApocalypse in literature 606 $aGood and evil in literature 606 $aMetaphysics in literature 615 0$aSpirituality in literature. 615 0$aMysticism in literature. 615 0$aPhilosophy in literature. 615 0$aGnosticism in literature. 615 0$aApocalypse in literature. 615 0$aGood and evil in literature. 615 0$aMetaphysics in literature. 676 $a813/.54 700 $aMundik$b Petra$01674538 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809361303321 996 $aA Bloody and Barbarous God$94039445 997 $aUNINA