Shreds of Matter : Cormac McCarthy and the Concept of Nature /

"Julius Greve offers a nuanced and innovative take on the writer's ostensible localism and the ecocentric perspective on the world that is assumed by most critics. In opposing both the standard interpretations of McCarthy's novels as either critical of persisting American ideologies--...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Greve, Julius (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
McCarthy, Cormac, > 1933- > Criticism and interpretation.
McCarthy, Cormac > 1933-
McCarthy, Cormac, > 1933-
Nature in literature.
Ecology in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Cormac McCarthy's Concept of Nature
  • "Trailing the Cord": Literary Descent and the Ethos of Ecology
  • "Shreds of Matter": Physiocentrism and Transnational Speculation
  • "Cloaca Maxima": Ontological Decay, or the Decomposition of Nature
  • "Another Kind of Clay": Physiophilosophy and War
  • "Malignant Life": Indifference, Identity, and Narrative Extainment
  • "The Ashes of Its Ruin": Writing Nature between Orphism and Prometheanism
  • Conclusion. Naturphilosophie and the Literature of Nature.

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