New perspectives on Cormac McCarthy : encountering The passenger and Stella Maris / 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. Passenger.

McCarthy, Cormac.

McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023. Stella Maris.

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

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

American fiction.

McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

301 pages 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2026]

Summary:

"Leading scholars take stock of McCarthy's final novels, illuminating the arc of his career, influence, and legacy. New Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy provides the first full-scale scholarly assessment of McCarthy's The Passenger and Stella Maris. While marked by McCarthy's unmistakable literary style, these novels deviate from his previous works. Focusing on mathematics and science, and venturing into new genres and locales, McCarthy's last novels showcase his most developed and complex meditations on the nature of life and human consciousness. The essays in this volume chart unexpected paths through McCarthy's work by engaging the reader through topics including: the writer's style and literary influences; quantum entanglement and mathematical topos theory; and the ecological, institutional, and ethical bounds of his engagement with themes of history, capitalism, and psychiatry. Compiled altogether, the contributors' essays invite readers to question, explore, and speculate-at times in quite radical ways-about how to read McCarthy's work as a whole"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Terminal : the final evolution of the dead-girlfriend trope in Cormac McCarthy's final novels / Nell Sullivan

"What are you supposed to be?" : disability and the Thalidomide kid / Brent Walter Cline

Warrior or penitent? Resolving the Western dilemma in The Passenger and Stella Maris / D. Marcel DeCoste

Companionship, material possessions, and the void in The passenger and Stella Maris / Jordan J. Dominy

Exploring new horizons : natural imagery in The passenger and Stella Maris / Katerina Kovarova

Weird object relations, ecology, and apocalypse in Cormac McCarthy's The passenger and Stella Maris / Joshua Cody Ward

Evolved in darkness : McCarthy's cave parable(s) in The Passenger's drafts and The Road / Dianne C. Luce.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version New perspectives on Cormac McCarthy

ISBN:

9781643366272

1643366270

9781643366487

1643366483

OCLC:

1579291996