True and living prophet of destruction : Cormac McCarthy and modernity / / Nicholas Monk
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| Autore: |
Monk Nicholas
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| Titolo: |
True and living prophet of destruction : Cormac McCarthy and modernity / / Nicholas Monk
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| Pubblicazione: | Albuquerque, New Mexico : , : University of New Mexico Press, , 2016 |
| ©2016 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xviii, 278 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 813/.54 |
| Soggetto topico: | Civilization, Modern, in literature |
| Violence in literature | |
| Modernism (Literature) - United States | |
| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-259) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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." |
| Titolo autorizzato: | True and living prophet of destruction |
| ISBN: | 0-8263-5680-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910798163303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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