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Cormac McCarthy's The road / edited & with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Bloom's guides.
- Bloom's guides
- 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, 1933-2023. Road.
- McCarthy, Cormac.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (149 p.)
- Other Title:
- Road
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Cormac McCarthy's jarring, dystopic vision of a father and son's fraught journey to an unknown destination earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2007. McCarthy peoples his bleak landscapes with individuals forced to renegotiate their own moral borders. The sparsity of the author's style creates a lyric tension with the bleak imagery and graphic realities that are part of this postapocalyptic world. In this new volume, critical excerpts explore this contemporary classic, and features include an annotated bibliography, an index, a list of characters from the work, and extensive summary an
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Biographical sketch
- The story behind the story
- List of characters
- Summary and analysis
- Critical views: Todd Shy on The road, The book of Job, and questions about evil
- Thomas A. Carlson on McCarthy's existential themes
- Carl James Grindley on the novel's setting
- Alex Hunt and Martin M. Jacobsen on the image of the sun
- Barbara Bennett on the image of fire and references to Yeats's poetry
- Shelly Rambo on the theme of redemption
- Ashley Kunsa on style in The road
- Thomas H. Schaub on allusion, style, and the theme of storytelling
- John Jurgensen on the backstory to The road
- Rune Graulund on the desert setting
- Works by Cormac McCarthy
- Annotated bibliography
- Contributors.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4381-3744-3
- OCLC:
- 739718964
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