Cormac McCarthy's violent destinies the poetics of determinism and fatalism / edited by Brad Bannon and John Vanderheide.
| Other author | Bannon, Brad, 1980- |
| Other author | Vanderheide, John. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, 2017. |
| Description | x, 349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Foreword / Rick Wallach -- Introduction / Brad Bannon and John Vanderheide -- Romance and naturalism in Cormac McCarthy's All the pretty horses / James Giles -- "All things fought": fate, violence, and the illusion of a Lockean social contract in Cormac McCarthy's Child of God / Woods Nash -- God, evil, suffering, and human destiny in the Border trilogy: learning from the "Teachers" / Dennis l. Sansom -- Guns and material determinism in The road / Rasmus R. Simonsen -- Holden and Chigurh: Cormac McCarthy and the ethics of power / Adrian Mioc -- Mysteries of the meridian revealed: McCarthy's anachronistic tarot / Robert Kottage -- Doom's adumbration: Suttree and the problem of fatalism / John Vanderheide -- "A clamorous tide of unforeseen consequence": Heimarmene in Cormac McCarthy's Border trilogy / Petra Mundik -- Fatal loss and teleological blindness in McCarthy's Tennessee novels / Brad Bannon -- Freaking determinism: the image of the wild man in Blood meridian / Tom Cull -- "Archives of our own devising": structural fatality in Cormac McCarthy's Blood meridian or The evening redness in the west / Theo Finigan. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2017029459 |
| ISBN | 9781621903826 (hardcover) |