The evolving project of Cormac McCarthy / edited by Jonathan Elmore and Rick Elmore.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Elmore, Jonathan, editor.

Elmore, Rick, Ph.D., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023--Criticism and interpretation.

McCarthy, Cormac.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Physical Description:

viii, 277 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"The Evolving Project of Cormac McCarthy presents eleven essays of original scholarship that undertake a programmatic reassessment of McCarthy's literary and philosophical worldview. Examining issues of race, morality, history, metaphysics, law, economics, and ecology in McCarthy's writing reveals how these themes intersect in an overarching, positive gesture that characterizes his work. Taken together, the essays offer a more expansive understanding of McCarthy's critique of contemporary society, while providing new clarity on his vision of alternate ways of living and community beyond their present life-denying manifestations"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. McCarthy's positive project / Jonathan Elmore and Rick Elmore

His disastrous wrath : monstrosity in Child of God / Ahmed Honeini

Woods that no one owned : rereading Child of God through The road / Jordan J. Dominy

Sorrow at the moving world : nihilistic despair and American exceptionalism in the Border trilogy and The road / Rachel B. Griffis

"Whales and men" and its echoes in the Border trilogy / Kateřina Kovářová

Cormac McCarthy's idea of race / John Vanderheide

The Black and white Jacksons : nonarbitrary racial conflict and the resonance of the racial sign in Faulkner and McCarthy / Peter Lurie

Unsettling testimony : settler law and native persistence in Blood meridian / Alex Harmon

The frailty of everything revealed at last : Cormac McCarthy and radical atheism / David Deacon

The darker picture and the ghost of culture : The sunset limited / Trevor Jackson

Chaos, law, and the materiality of McCarthy's language / Vernon W. Cisney

McCarthy's foundational critique of individualism and the Western mythos in the epilogue of Cities of the plain / Jonathan Elmore and Rick Elmore.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Evolving project of Cormac McCarthy

ISBN:

9780807183427

0807183423

9780807182802

080718280X

OCLC:

1432583935