The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy 1st Edition by Steven Frye ISBN 1107018153 978-1107018150

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ISBN 10: 1107018153 

ISBN 13: 978-1107018150

Author: Steven Frye

Cormac McCarthy both embodies and redefines the notion of the artist as outsider. His fiction draws on recognizable American themes and employs dense philosophical and theological subtexts, challenging readers by depicting the familiar as inscrutably foreign. The essays in this Companion offer a sophisticated yet concise introduction to McCarthy’s difficult and provocative work. The contributors, an international team of McCarthy scholars, analyze some of the most well-known and commonly taught novels – Outer Dark, Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, and The Road – while providing detailed treatments of McCarthy’s work in cinema, including the many adaptations of his novels to film. Designed for scholars, teachers, and general readers, and complete with a chronology and bibliography for further reading, this Companion is an essential reference for anyone interested in gaining a deeper understanding of one of America’s most celebrated living novelists.

Table of contents: 

1. Introduction: Histories, novels, ideas: McCarthy and the art of philosophy – Steven Frye

Part I. Influence and Innovation
2. McCarthy’s heroes and the will to truth – Linda Woodson
3. Modernism, postmodernism, and language: McCarthy’s style – Phillip A. Snyder and Delys W. Snyder

Part II. Beginnings in the American South
4. McCarthy, Tennessee, and the southern gothic – Lydia R. Cooper
5. McCarthy and the uses of philosophy in the Tennessee novels – Brian Evenson

Part III. The Move Westward
6. History and the problem of evil in McCarthy’s western novels – Timothy Parrish
7. The Border Trilogy, The Road, and the Cold War – Pierre Lagayette

Part IV. The Novels
8. Outer Dark and romantic naturalism – James R. Giles
9. Blood Meridian and the poetics of violence – Steven Frye
10. All the Pretty Horses, the border, and ethnic encounter – Nicholas Monk
11. The quest for God in The Road – Allen Josephs

Part V. Themes and Issues
12. McCarthy and naturalism – Eric Carl Link
13. McCarthy and film – Stacey Peebles
14. McCarthy’s heroes: revisiting masculinity – John Dudley

Back Matter

• Selected Bibliography

• Index

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