Understanding Cormac McCarthy

Understanding Cormac McCarthy
Author :
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Total Pages : 150
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781611172041
ISBN-13 : 1611172047
Rating : 4/5 (047 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Understanding Cormac McCarthy by : Steven Frye

Download or read book Understanding Cormac McCarthy written by Steven Frye and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A roadmap to the dark and mythic topography of McCarthy's fiction Named by Harold Bloom as one of the most significant American novelists of our time, Cormac McCarthy has been honored with the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for All the Pretty Horses, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for The Road, and the coveted MacArthur Fellowship. Steven Frye offers a comprehensive treatment of McCarthy's fiction to date, dealing with the author's aesthetic and thematic concerns, his philosophical and religious influences, and his participation in Western literary traditions. Frye provides extensive readings of each novel, charting the trajectory of McCarthy's development as a writer who invigorates literary culture both past and present through a blend of participation, influence, and aesthetic transformation. Understanding Cormac McCarthy explores the early works of the Tennessee period in the context of the "romance" genre, the southern gothic and grotesque, as well as the carnivalesque. A chapter is devoted to Blood Meridian, a novel that marks McCarthy's transition to the West and his full recognition as a major force in American letters. In the final two chapters, Frye explores McCarthy's Border Trilogy and his later works— specifically No Country for Old Men and The Road—addressing the manner in which McCarthy's preoccupation with violence and human depravity exists alongside a perpetual search for meaning, purpose, and value. Frye provides scholars, students, and general readers alike with a clearly argued foundational examination of McCarthy's novels in their historical and literary contexts as an ideal roadmap illuminating the author's work as it charts the dark and mythic topography of the American frontier.


Understanding Cormac McCarthy Related Books

Understanding Cormac McCarthy
Language: en
Pages: 150
Authors: Steven Frye
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-08-27 - Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

GET EBOOK

A roadmap to the dark and mythic topography of McCarthy's fiction Named by Harold Bloom as one of the most significant American novelists of our time, Cormac Mc
The Road
Language: en
Pages: 297
Authors: Cormac McCarthy
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Vintage Books

GET EBOOK

In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landsc
The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy
Language: en
Pages: 229
Authors: Steven Frye
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-22 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

GET EBOOK

This book provides a sophisticated introduction to the life and work of Cormac McCarthy appropriate for scholars, teachers and general readers.
My Confession
Language: en
Pages: 383
Authors: Samuel Emery Chamberlain
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: Texas State Historical Assn

GET EBOOK

Not control his amorous and pugilistic inclinations and so left for the West. According to his "Confession," he seduced countless women in the U.S. and Mexico,
Blood Meridian
Language: en
Pages: 349
Authors: Cormac McCarthy
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-08-11 - Publisher: Vintage

GET EBOOK

25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road: an epic novel of the violence and dep