Cormac McCarthy : A complexity theory of literature /
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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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2021.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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