Cormac McCarthy in Context
About this book
Cormac McCarthy is a writer informed by an intense curiosity. His interests range from the natural world, to philosophy and religion, to history and culture. Cormac McCarthy in Context offers readers the opportunity to understand how various influences inform his rich body of work. The collection explores the relationship McCarthy has with his favourite authors, writers such as Herman Melville, William Faulkner, and Ernest Hemingway. Other contexts are tremendously informative, including the American Romance tradition of the nineteenth century as well as modernity and the modernist literary movement. Influence and context are of absolute importance in understanding McCarthy, who is now being understood as one of the most significant authors of the contemporary period.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Part I Environments
- Part II Literary Contexts: Sources, Influences, Allusions
- Part III Intellectual Contexts
- Part IV Social and Cultural Contexts
- Part V Archives, Critical History, Translation
- Works Cited
- Index
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