New Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy
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New Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy

Encountering <I>The Passenger</I> and <I>Stella Maris</I>

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New Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy

Encountering <I>The Passenger</I> and <I>Stella Maris</I>

About this book

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 The Passenger and Stella Maris. While marked by McCarthy's unmistakable literary style, these novels venture into new genres and locales, focusing on mathematics and science, and showcasing 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 and take up topics that include the writer's style, literary influences, and engagement with themes of quantum physics, history, capitalism, and psychiatry. Taken together these essays invite readers to question, explore, and speculate, at times in quite radical ways, about how to read McCarthy's final two novels and his work as a whole.

Contributors: Vernon W. Cisney, Brent Walter Cline, D. Marcel DeCoste, Jordan J. Dominy, Bryan Giemza, Trevor Jackson, Kate?ina KovĂĄ?ovĂĄ, Dianne C. Luce, Stacey Peebles, Brian James Schill, Nell Sullivan, John Vanderheide, Rick Wallach, Joshua Cody Ward, and Scott D. Yarbrough

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Information

Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Year
2026
Print ISBN
9781643366487
9781643366272
eBook ISBN
9781643366609
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Biographies
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. NEW PERSPECTIVES ON CORMAC McCARTHY
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. CONTENTS
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter 1 Terminal: The Final Evolution of the Dead-Girlfriend Trope in Cormac McCarthy’s Final Novels
  8. Chapter 2 “What Are You Supposed to Be?”: Disability and the Thalidomide Kid
  9. Chapter 3 Warrior or Penitent? Resolving the Western Dilemma in The Passenger and Stella Maris
  10. Chapter 4 Companionship, Material Possessions, and the Void in The Passenger and Stella Maris
  11. Chapter 5 Exploring New Horizons: Natural Imagery in The Passenger and Stella Maris
  12. Chapter 6 Weird Object Relations, Ecology, and Apocalypse in Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger and Stella Maris
  13. Chapter 7 Nothing to See: Death and the Fading World in Cormac McCarthy’s Last Novel
  14. Chapter 8 “The Deep Foundation of the World”: The Paradox of Suffering and Faith in The Passenger and Stella Maris
  15. Chapter 9 The Ruined Aviator and Meaning-Making Across Three McCarthy Works
  16. Chapter 10 Cormac, Anti-Psychiatry, and the Madness of Neoliberalism
  17. Chapter 11 Cormac McCarthy’s Dyad: The Entangled Siblings of The Passenger and Stella Maris
  18. Chapter 12 Incest and Intertextualism: Diving Deep into The Passenger and Stella Maris
  19. Chapter 13 Quantum Resolution: The Enigma of the Missing Passenger
  20. Chapter 14 Cormac McCarthy’s Late Allegorical Style
  21. Chapter 15 Evolved in Darkness: McCarthy’s Cave Parable(s) in The Passenger’s Drafts and The Road
  22. Acknowledgments
  23. Contributors
  24. Index

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