True and Living Prophet of Destruction
Cormac McCarthy and Modernity
- 272 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Cormac McCarthy's work sounds warnings of impending apocalypse, but it also implies that redemption remains available. Nicholas Monk argues that McCarthy's response to the modern world is more subtle and less laden with despair than many realize, and that his work represents an understanding of the world that transcends the political divisions of right and left, escapes the reductive nature of identity politics, and looks to futures beyond the immediately adjacent. He positions McCarthy as an acute chronicler of the American condition at the beginning of a new century.
Tracing the development of modernity, Monk explores the associated political and philosophical undercurrents in McCarthy and identifies how they are generated and what they oppose. He focuses on language, aesthetics, violence, the spiritual, and the natural environment and the animals that inhabit it. He examines the experience of engaging with McCarthy's fiction in order to reveal why so many people report that "reading Cormac McCarthy changed my life."
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1: Modernity’s I and the Civilized Barbarian
- 2: Modernity: From Nihilism to Globalization
- 3: Modernity and the West: Blood Meridian and the Border Trilogy
- 4: Modernity and the South: The Appalachian Novels, The Gardener’s Son, and The Stonemason
- 5: Violence Fast and Slow
- 6: Learning from Cormac McCarthy
- 7: A Resonance like Music
- 8: Journeys of Spiritual Formation
- 9: The Earth Shall Weep
- 10: The Beautiful Image
- 11: Doing Things with Words
- 12: Marginal Worlds, Marginal Languages
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Back Cover