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Cormac McCarthy

Autor: Erik Hage

Número de Páginas: 201

Cormac McCarthy, the author of such works as Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, and The Road, is one of America's greatest living writers--an uncompromising examiner of the depths of human depravity, the nature of evil, and the bonds that endure. This companion is intended for both the scholar and lay reader seeking a comprehensive understanding of McCarthy's body of work. Alphabetically ordered entries offer analysis of novels, characters, motifs, allusions, plays, and themes, as well as commentary on events, people and places related to McCarthy scholarship. Most entries include a selected bibliography for further reading. A biographical introduction provides information on the life of this reclusive author, and discussion topics are provided as an aid for instructors.

Morality in Cormac McCarthy's Fiction

Autor: Russell M. Hillier

Número de Páginas: 320

This book argues that McCarthy’s works convey a profound moral vision, and use intertextuality, moral philosophy, and questions of genre to advance that vision. It focuses upon the ways in which McCarthy’s fiction is in ceaseless conversation with literary and philosophical tradition, examining McCarthy’s investment in influential thinkers from Marcus Aurelius to Hannah Arendt, and poets, playwrights, and novelists from Dante and Shakespeare to Fyodor Dostoevsky and Antonio Machado. The book shows how McCarthy’s fiction grapples with abiding moral and metaphysical issues: the nature and problem of evil; the idea of God or the transcendent; the credibility of heroism in the modern age; the question of moral choice and action; the possibility of faith, hope, love, and goodness; the meaning and limits of civilization; and the definition of what it is to be human. This study will appeal alike to readers, teachers, and scholars of Cormac McCarthy.

Cormac McCarthy's Literary Evolution

Autor: Daniel King

Número de Páginas: 160

“Daniel King has performed a service long overdue for scholars and avid readers of McCarthy's work. Incorporating correspondence to and from his editors and agents, and relating comments he penciled into the margins of his in-progress manuscripts, King has given us a finely detailed portrait of the craftsman at work. It's an enjoyably readable account of how the master bricoleur revised, reconsidered, and ultimately built the novels which so challenge and delight us.” —Rick Wallach, editor of Myth, Legend, Dust: Critical Responses to Cormac McCarthy When the New York Times published the first print interview with Cormac McCarthy in 1992, the author was barely known outside a small group of academics, writers, and devoted readers. None of his books, up to that point, had sold more than five thousand copies in hardcover. But that same year McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses made the best-seller lists, and over the next two decades, with the publication of such books as No Country for Old Men, the basis for the Coen brothers’ Oscar-winning film, and The Road, a Pulitzer Prize winner and an Oprah’s Book Club selection, McCarthy became a household name. In Cormac McCarthy’s ...

Cormac McCarthy

Autor: Robert L. Jarrett

Número de Páginas: 200

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Cormac McCarthy

Autor: David N. Cremean

Número de Páginas: 356

A great starting point for students seeking an introduction to McCarthy and the critical discussions surrounding his work. In just the last two decades, Cormac McCarthy has ascended terrain as sheer as any depicted in his fiction: from an award-winning ""writer's writer"" with a cult following who had never sold more than a few thousand copies of his first five published novels, he rose to the top of best seller lists, became a popular commodity for Hollywood adaptations, and has gained a reputation as one of the authors who best represent that certain something that is our American culture. Edited by David Cremean, Associate Professor of English at Black Hills State University and an editor for The Cormac McCarthy Journal, this volume in the Critical Insights series presents a variety of new essays on the American writer. For readers who are studying McCarthy for the first time, a biographical sketch relates the details of his life and four essays survey the critical reception of McCarthy's work, explore its cultural and historical contexts, situate McCarthy among his contemporaries, and review key themes in his work. Readers seeking a deeper understanding of the writer can then...

Sacred Violence: Cormac McCarthy's appalachian works

Autor: Wade Hall , Rick Wallach

Número de Páginas: 210

Cormac McCarthy's West

Autor: James Bell

Número de Páginas: 180

Cormac McCarthy

Autor: Kenneth Lincoln

Número de Páginas: 216

With a thirteen major works over a fifty-year career, one that includes a 2007 Pulitzer Prize, selection for Oprah’s Book Club, and Oscar-winning film adaptations of his novels, Cormac McCarthy is one of America’s best-selling novelists of the South and Southwest. Cormac McCarthy offers a shrewd chapter-by-chapter reading, exploring concepts such as the Southern Gothic novel, the Southwest border, faith and suicide, and father-son relationships. Respected scholar Kenneth Lincoln shows how McCarthy’s canticles of praise, grief, and warning mix classic, biblical, and ballad genres and cross the lyrical with the narrative. Lincoln makes a compelling case that McCarthy is our greatest millennial novelist in a time of heroic challenge and high global stakes.

Reading Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian

Autor: James Bowers

Número de Páginas: 72

Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy

Autor: Edwin T. Arnold , Dianne C. Luce

Número de Páginas: 272

A revised edition of a volume praised as the best handbook for an understanding of McCarthy's great works

New Westers

Autor: Michael L. Johnson

Número de Páginas: 432

These "New Westers", Johnson reveals, line-dance and two-step, listen to Garth Brooks and George Strait, drink beer from long-neck bottles, wear clothes ordered from Sheplers, watch rodeo on ESPN, play Wild West arcade games, eat fajitas and tacos in stuccoed Mexican cafes, collect Western art and Native American crafts, and vacation in and move to the West. "New Westers" rewrite the history and biography of the West. They reimagine the West in Cowboy sagas and poetry, Native American novels, Mexican-American drama, nature writing, revisionist films, eclectic visual artwork, and neo-traditional music. They flock to movies like Thelma and Louise, Unforgiven, and Dances with Wolves, watch mini-series like Lonesome Dove, and read bestsellers like The Crossing and All The Pretty Horses. "New Westers" are men and women who may or may not have ever hitched up a horse but who crave connection with the West. At the end of a century of urbanization, technological change, and cultural confusion, they seek a more natural home, a fuller and wider sense of place, and a deeper and more colorful personal identity. They also want to revive the dream of the mythic West - but on different terms....

Cormac McCarthy: A Descriptive Bibliography

Autor: Stephen R. Pastore , Paul Ford

Número de Páginas: 438

A full color descriptive bibliography of Cormac McCarthy's novels.

Cormac McCarthy - Les romans du Sud-Ouest

Autor: Florence Stricker

Número de Páginas: 172

Présenté comme " le plus inconnu des meilleurs romanciers d'Amérique ", Cormac McCarthy préfère la compagnie des scientifiques à celle des écrivains et fuit les chaires universitaires. Il n'en suscite pas moins des enthousiasmes inconditionnels et une reconnaissance aujourd'hui incontestable. All the Pretty Horses avait été couronné par le National Book Award en 1992, The Road vient de recevoir le prix Pulitzer (2007). Par ailleurs, les frères Coen ont réalisé l'adaptation cinématographique de No Country for Old Men, dont la sortie est prévue en 2008. Cet ouvrage explore les romans du Sud-Ouest (1985-1998), deuxième versant d'une œuvre préalablement ancrée dans les provinces des Appalaches. Délibérément placés sous le signe de l'exposition (à la condition désertique, aux forces du dehors), les romans du Sud-Ouest n'en portent pas moins les traces de l'Histoire américaine (littéraire, religieuse, philosophique et politique). Et surtout, ils dessinent, dans le tumulte d'un pays encore en gestation, les voies d'une Amérique " encore inapprochable ". Tout en demeurant fasciné par les zones d'affrontement et la précarité de notre habitat, McCarthy...

Cormac McCarthy and the Myth of American Exceptionalism

Autor: John Cant

Número de Páginas: 371

This overview of McCarthy’s published work to date, including: the short stories he published as a student, his novels, stage play and TV film script, locates him as a icocolastic writer, engaged in deconstructing America’s vision of itself as a nation with an exceptionalist role in the world. Introductory chapters outline his personal background and the influences on his early years in Tennessee whilst each of his works is dealt with in a separate chapter listed in chronological order of publication.

Carrying the Fire

Autor: Rick Wallach

A Bloody and Barbarous God

Autor: Petra Mundik

Número de Páginas: 432

13: " In All That Dark and All That Cold": Good and Evil in No Country for Old Men -- 14: "All Things of Grace and Beauty": The Presence of the Sacred in The Road -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Back Cover

Styles of Extinction: Cormac McCarthy's The Road

Autor: Julian Murphet , Mark Steven

Número de Páginas: 178

This collection shows how Cormac McCarthy's The Road reacts aesthetically to many of the ethical, ontological, and political concerns that define our times.

Adventures in Reading Cormac McCarthy

Autor: Peter Josyph

Número de Páginas: 257

Regarded by many as one of America's finest-living writers, Cormac McCarthy has produced some of the most compelling novels of the last 40 years. Through the increasing number of cinematic adaptations of his work, including the Oscar-winning No Country for Old Men, and the Pulitzer Prize for The Road, McCarthy is entering the mainstream of cultural consciousness, both in the United States and abroad. In Adventures in Reading Cormac McCarthy, Peter Josyph considers, at length, the author's two masterworks Blood Meridian and Suttree, as well as the novel and film of All the Pretty Horses, McCarthy's play The Stonemason, and his film The Gardener's Son. The book also includes extended conversations with critic Harold Bloom about Blood Meridian; novelist and poet Robert Morgan about The Gardener's Son; critic Rick Wallach about Blood Meridian; and Oscar-winning screenwriter Ted Tally about his film adaptation of All the Pretty Horses. Drawing on multiple resources of an unconventional nature, this book examines McCarthy's work from original and sometimes provocative perspectives. Proposing a new notion of criticism, Adventures in Reading Cormac McCarthy will become a useful tool for...