Cormac McCarthy : A complexity theory of literature /

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Cormac McCarthy: A complexity theory of literature offers the first sustained analysis of complexity science in McCarthy's literary works. McCarthy's fiction makes a significant case study demonstrating how literature can help us imagine and grapple with complex systems and crises, from gl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cooper, Lydia R., 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
McCarthy, Cormac, > 1933-
McCarthy, Cormac, > 1933- > Criticism and interpretation.
Climatic changes in literature.
Economics in literature.
Climat > Changements, dans la litterature.
Économie politique dans la litterature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • Series editors' foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Cars, trucks, and horses: man in the age of the machine
  • War and the wanderer: the rise of empire in Blood Meridian
  • Professionals: late capitalism and the illegal drug trade in No Country for Old Men and The Counselor
  • Prophets: imagining the end of the Anthropocene in The Road
  • Pilgrims: nomadism and the making and unmaking of the world in the Border Trilogy
  • Death and the poet: Suttree and art that sustains
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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