Understanding Cormac McCarthy (Understanding Contemporary American Literature) - Softcover

Frye, Steven

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1611170184 ISBN 13: 9781611170184

Verlag: University of South Carolina Press, 2011

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Named by Harold Bloom as one of the most significant American novelists of our time, Cormac McCarthy has been honored with the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for All the Pretty Horses, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for The Road, and the coveted MacArthur Fellowship. Steven Frye offers a comprehensive treatment of McCarthy's fiction to date, dealing with the author's aesthetic and thematic concerns, his philosophical and religious influences, and his participation in Western literary traditions.

Frye provides extensive readings of each novel, charting the trajectory of McCarthy's development as a writer who invigorates literary culture both past and present through a blend of participation, influence, and aesthetic transformation. Understanding Cormac McCarthy explores the early works of the Tennessee period in the context of the "romance" genre, the southern gothic and grotesque, as well as the carnivalesque. A chapter is devoted to Blood Meridian, a novel that marks McCarthy's transition to the West and his full recognition as a major force in American letters. In the final two chapters, Frye explores McCarthy's Border Trilogy and his later works— specifically No Country for Old Men and The Road—addressing the manner in which McCarthy's preoccupation with violence and human depravity exists alongside a perpetual search for meaning, purpose, and value.

Frye provides scholars, students, and general readers alike with a clearly argued foundational examination of McCarthy's novels in their historical and literary contexts as an ideal roadmap illuminating the author's work as it charts the dark and mythic topography of the American frontier.

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President of the Cormac McCarthy Society, Steven Frye is a professor of American Literature at California State University, Bakersfield. He is the author of Historiography and Narrative Design in the American Romance: A Study of Four Authors, editor of Critical Insights: Poe's Tales and Critical Insights: Poe's Poetry. He is also associate editor of ALN: The American Literary Naturalism Newsletter, as well as the author of many essays, articles, and reviews on Cormac McCarthy, Herman Melville, James Fenimore Cooper, and other novelists of the American romance tradition.

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A roadmap to the dark and mythic topography of McCarthy's fiction

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A roadmap to the dark and mythic topography of McCarthy's fiction

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• Verlag: University of South Carolina Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1611170184
• ISBN 13: 9781611170184
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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