True and Living Prophet of Destruction : Cormac McCarthy and Modernity /

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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."

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Monk, Nicholas (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
McCarthy, Cormac, > 1933-
McCarthy, Cormac, > 1933- > Criticism and interpretation.
McCarthy, Cormac, > 1933- > Literary style.
Violence in literature.
Literary style.
Modernism (Literature)
Civilization, Modern, in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Violence dans la litterature.
Modernisme (Litterature) > États-Unis.
Modernism (Literature) > United States.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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