Styles of extinction : Cormac McCarthy's The road / edited by Julian Murphet and Mark Steven.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Murphet, Julian.

Steven, Mark.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fathers and sons in literature.

Good and evil in literature.

Apocalypse in literature.

Regression (Civilization) in literature.

Survival in literature.

Redemption in literature.

McCarthy, Cormac, 1933- Road.

McCarthy, Cormac.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Politics and Aesthetics of Cormac McCarthy's The Road brings together several leading literary scholars, one major philosopher, as well as a handful of emerging critical voices, all of whom deploy their own specialist methods in order to think through this bestselling, Zeitgeist-defining event of contemporary literature. There are two dominant modes of analysis gathered here: the first, performed by Julian Murphet, Paul Sheehan, and Mark Steven, is to locate the novel within its political, spiritual, and economic climates; the second, whose exponents include Paul Patton, Sean Pryor, Chris

Contents:

The cold illucid world : the poetics of gray in Cormac McCarthy's The road / Chris Danta

McCarthy's rhythm / Sean Pryor

Spring has lost its scent : allegory, ruination, and suicidal melancholia in The road / Grace Hellyer

The late world of Cormac McCarthy / Mark Steven

Road, fire, trees : Cormac McCarthy's post-America / Paul Sheehan

The cave and the road : styles of forgotten dreams / Julian Murphet

McCarthy's fire / Paul Patton.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613806000

9781441198198

1441198199

9781282133426

128213342X

9781441131324

1441131329

OCLC:

799765966