Cormac McCarthy's Literary Evolution : Editors, Agents, and the Crafting of a Prolific American Author /

"In Cormac McCarthy's Literary Evolution, Daniel Robert King traces McCarthy's journey from cult figure to literary icon. Drawing extensively on McCarthy's papers and those of Albert Erskine, his editor and devoted advocate at Random House, as well as the latest in McCarthy schol...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: King, Daniel Robert (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2016]
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
McCarthy, Cormac > 1933-
McCarthy, Cormac, > 1933-
McCarthy, Cormac, > 1933- > Friends and associates.
Werk
Interpretation
Herausgeber
Literary agents.
Friendship.
Book editors.
Authors and publishers.
Agents litteraires > États-Unis > Biographies.
Éditeurs > États-Unis > Biographies.
Écrivains et editeurs > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Literary agents > United States > Biography.
Book editors > United States > Biography.
Authors and publishers > United States > History > 20th century.
United States.
History.
Biographies.
Biography.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"In Cormac McCarthy's Literary Evolution, Daniel Robert King traces McCarthy's journey from cult figure to literary icon. Drawing extensively on McCarthy's papers and those of Albert Erskine, his editor and devoted advocate at Random House, as well as the latest in McCarthy scholarship, King investigates the changes that McCarthy's work as a novelist, his writing methods, and the reception of his novels have undergone over the course of his career. Taking several of McCarthy's major novels as case studies, King explores the lengthy process of their composition through multiple drafts and revisions, the signal contributions of the author's agents and publishers, and McCarthy's growing confidence as a writer who is strongly attentive to tone and repeated metaphors and images. This work also reveals the wide range of McCarthy's reading and research, especially of historical and scientific materials, as well as key intertextual connections between the novels. Part literary biography, part archival investigation, and part study of print culture, this book is particularly revealing of how one talented writer, properly nurtured by dedicated allies, went on to gain a huge measure of recognition and respect, which has become increasingly difficult for serious authors to achieve in today's profit-driven publishing world"--Publisher's website.
Descripción Física:1 online resource.
ISBN:9781621902485

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