A Bloody and Barbarous God : The Metaphysics of Cormac McCarthy /

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"A Bloody and Barbarous God investigates the relationship between gnosticism, a system of thought that argues that the cosmos is evil and that the human spirit must strive for liberation from manifest existence, and the perennial philosophy, a study of the highest common factor in all esoteric...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Mundik, Petra (Autor, 1984-)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
McCarthy, Cormac, > 1933-
McCarthy, Cormac, > 1933- > Criticism and interpretation.
Spirituality in literature.
Philosophy in literature.
Mysticism in literature.
Metaphysics in literature.
Good and evil in literature.
Gnosticism in literature.
Apocalypse in literature.
End of the world in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Spiritualite dans la litterature.
Mysticisme dans la litterature.
Philosophie dans la litterature.
Gnosticisme dans la litterature.
Fin du monde dans la litterature.
Metaphysique dans la litterature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction." 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.

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