Intertextual and interdisciplinary approaches to Cormac McCarthy : borders and crossings / / edited by Nicholas Monk ; with a foreword by Rick Wallach

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Routledge, 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (209 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.54
• Soggetto topico: Intertextuality
• Altri autori: MonkNicholas
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Intertextual andInterdisciplinaryApproaches toCormac McCarthyBorders and Crossings; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword, by Rich Wallach; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Blood Meridian and Classical Greek Thought; 2. The Ties that Bind: Intertextual Links between All the Pretty Horses and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; 3. Cormac McCarthy and the American Literary Tradition: Wording the End; 4. Cormac McCarthy's House; 5. The Painterly Eye: Waterscapes in Cormac McCarthy's The Road; 6. The Silent Sheriff: No Country for Old Men- A Comparison of Novel and Film ; 7. "A Namelessness Wheeling in the Night": Shapes of Evil in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian and John Carpenter's Halloween8. "A Novel in Dramatic Form": Metaphysical Tension in The Sunset Limited; 9. Believing in The Sunset Limited: Tom Cornford and Peter Josyph on Directing McCarthy; 10. Cold Dimensions, Little Worlds: Self, Death, and Motion in Suttree and Beckett's Murphy; 11. From Blue to Blood: Jean Toomer's "Blue Meridian" and Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian as Intertexts; 12. Versions of the Seeleroman: Cormac McCarthy and Leslie Silko; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This collection offers a fresh approach to the work of Cormac McCarthy, one of the most important contemporary American authors. Essays focus on his work across the genres and/or in constellation with other writers and artists, presenting not only a different ""angle"" on the work, but setting him within a broader literary and artistic context. Such an approach offers a view of McCarthy that is strikingly different to previous collections that have dealt with the work in an almost exclusively ""single author"" and/or ""single genre"" mode. McCarthy's novels are increasingly regarded as amon
• Titolo autorizzato: Intertextual and interdisciplinary approaches to Cormac McCarthy
• ISBN: 1-136-63605-6; 1-136-63606-4; 0-203-80380-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910828087303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge studies in contemporary literature ; ; 6.