Cormac McCarthy and the myth of American exceptionalism / John Cant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cant, John, 1937-

Series:

Studies in major literary authors (Unnumbered)

Studies in major literary authors

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

McCarthy, Cormac.

National characteristics, American, in literature.

Exceptionalism--United States.

Exceptionalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (370 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction

Personal and literary biography

Tennessee background

Wake for Susan and A Drowning Incident

The orchard keeper

Outer dark

Child of God

Suttree

The stonemason

The gardener's son

Blood meridian

All the pretty horses

The crossing

Cities of the plain

No country for old men

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-345) and index.

"Supplementary bibliography": p. 281.

ISBN:

1-136-09506-3

0-203-03631-X

1-283-96482-1

1-136-09498-9

9780203036310

OCLC:

826854964