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Embracing Vocation : Cormac McCarthy's Writing Life, 1959-1974 /
"Revelations on craft from a foundational scholar of Cormac McCarthy. Devotees of Cormac McCarthy's novels are legion, and deservedly so. Embracing Vocation, which tells the tale of his journey to become one of America's greatest living writers, will be invaluable to scholars and lite...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbia, South Carolina :
The University of South Carolina Press,
[2022]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Apprentice work and biographical context
- Drafting The orchard keeper : remnants of the first draft
- The "late draft"
- Revision for Lawrence Bensky
- Working with Albert Erskine
- Placing excerpts in periodicals
- Compiling the jacket copy
- Awards
- Reviews and sales
- Biographical context and the novel's genesis
- the drafting process
- Culla's monologues
- Sins of the father : the triune surface
- The ferry scene and Culla's psychotic break
- Culla's dreams
- The triune walk
- Rinthy's Evolution
- The murder of the tinker
- The child sacrifice
- Culla and the blind man
- New Orleans to Knoxville to Europe, 1964-1967
- The editing stage
- Publication and reception
- Subsidiary rights and awards
- Genesis
- The auction
- The high sheriff of Sevier County
- Contrary oxen and the unidentified storytellers
- The child and the frozen robin
- The blacksmith
- Domestic life and writing life in Tennessee, 1967-1973
- Representation by the Robert Lantz-Candida
- Donadio literary agency
- Revising Child of God in the middle and late draft stages
- The editing stage
- Publication and reception
- Afterword : 1974.