Reading the World: Cormac McCarthy's Tennessee Period - Hardcover

Luce, Dianne C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1570038244 ISBN 13: 9781570038242

Verlag: University of South Carolina Press, 2009

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In Reading the World, Dianne C. Luce offers an extensive treatment of the southern novels of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winning author Cormac McCarthy. Luce s study is as valuable as it is ambitious, blending with precision the local and historical with the universal and philosophical and thus charting the process by which the literal content of individual experience is employed in McCarthy s fiction to both aesthetic and philosophical ends. Steven Frye, California State University, Bakersfield, and author of Understanding Cormac McCarthy"

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This is an investigation into the aesthetic and philosophical ends of McCarthy's southern novels. ""Reading the World"" explores the historical and philosophical contexts of Cormac McCarthy's early works crafted during his Tennessee period from 1959 to 1979 to demonstrate how McCarthy integrates literary realism with the imagery and myths of Platonic, gnostic, and existentialist philosophies to create his unique vision of the world. Dianne C. Luce begins with a substantial treatment of the East Tennessee context from which McCarthy's fiction emerges, sketching an Appalachian culture and environment in flux. Then Luce examines McCarthy's distinctive rendering of character and shows how his fragmented narration and lyrical style create a rich portrayal of the philosophical and religious elements at play as human consciousness confronts a world rife with isolation and violence. As she explores the developing gnosticism in ""Outer Dark"" and ""Child of God"", Luce notes the introduction of Platonic myths and symbols, creating dialogic tensions. She finds McCarthy blending these elements with the neo-gnosticism of Camus' existentialism in ""The Gardener's Son"", and she concludes by illustrating how McCarthy's ambitious ""Suttree"" is a culmination of the Tennessee period as she unravels the novel's complexly interwoven texture of philosophical and mythic strains introduced in earlier works.

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• Verlag: University of South Carolina Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1570038244
• ISBN 13: 9781570038242
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336