The evolving project of Cormac McCarthy / edited by Jonathan Elmore and Rick Elmore.

Other author Elmore, Jonathan, editor.
Other author Elmore, Rick, Ph.D., editor.
Format Book
PublicationBaton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2024]
Descriptionviii, 277 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023--Criticism and interpretation.
American literature--20th century. --History and criticism.

Contents Introduction. McCarthy's positive project / Jonathan Elmore and Rick Elmore -- His disastrous wrath : monstrosity in Child of God / Ahmed Honeini -- Woods that no one owned : rereading Child of God through The road / Jordan J. Dominy -- Sorrow at the moving world : nihilistic despair and American exceptionalism in the Border trilogy and The road / Rachel B. Griffis -- "Whales and men" and its echoes in the Border trilogy / Kateřina Kovářová -- Cormac McCarthy's idea of race / John Vanderheide -- The Black and white Jacksons : nonarbitrary racial conflict and the resonance of the racial sign in Faulkner and McCarthy / Peter Lurie -- Unsettling testimony : settler law and native persistence in Blood meridian / Alex Harmon -- The frailty of everything revealed at last : Cormac McCarthy and radical atheism / David Deacon -- The darker picture and the ghost of culture : The sunset limited / Trevor Jackson -- Chaos, law, and the materiality of McCarthy's language / Vernon W. Cisney -- McCarthy's foundational critique of individualism and the Western mythos in the epilogue of Cities of the plain / Jonathan Elmore and Rick Elmore.
Abstract "The Evolving Project of Cormac McCarthy presents eleven essays of original scholarship that undertake a programmatic reassessment of McCarthy's literary and philosophical worldview. Examining issues of race, morality, history, metaphysics, law, economics, and ecology in McCarthy's writing reveals how these themes intersect in an overarching, positive gesture that characterizes his work. Taken together, the essays offer a more expansive understanding of McCarthy's critique of contemporary society, while providing new clarity on his vision of alternate ways of living and community beyond their present life-denying manifestations"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Evolving project of Cormac McCarthy Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2024] 9780807183403
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