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  title info:
    title: Professing darkness
    sub title: Cormac McCarthy's Catholic critique of American enlightenment
  name:
    name part: DeCoste, D. Marcel
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: lau
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 269 pages ; 24 cm
  abstract: Professing Darkness: Cormac McCarthy's Catholic Critique of American Enlightenment establishes the centrality of Catholic thought, imagery and sacrament both to the spiritual outlook of the McCarthy corpus and, more specifically, to its critique of Enlightenment values and their realization in American history. To this end, D. Marcel DeCoste surveys McCarthy's fiction from both his Tennessee and southwestern periods, with chapters devoted to eight of his published novels, from Outer Dark to The Road-and an introduction and coda that offer analyses of two of his dramatic works, along with his final novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris. The argument advanced by DeCoste is twofold. First, his readings demonstrate that McCarthy's work mounts a sustained critique of core Enlightenment values and their bloody results in the American context. Second, he establishes that this critical engagement with American Enlightenment is one enabled by, and articulated through, specifically Catholic teachings on such topics as sacraments, ethics and material creation. Though other studies trace how McCarthy's fiction dissects such American myths as radical individualism and Manifest Destiny, they do not, at the same time, take up the question of how the fiction's spiritual interests and obtrusive Christian symbolism relate to this critical project. More than merely calling attention to McCarthy's own religious background or his drawing on sacramental language, DeCoste examines the significance of Catholicism to the author's depictions not just of religion and ethics, but of the modernity many critics see McCarthy as critiquing. Throughout Professing Darkness, DeCoste offers extended analysis of McCarthy's engagement with American history and myth, early modern and Enlightenment thought and Catholic theology, ethics and sacramentalism.
  note: D. Marcel DeCoste.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: McCarthy, Cormac
      name part: 1933-2023
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Catholic Church
    topic: In literature
  subject:
    topic: Theology in literature
  classification: PS3563.C337 Z646 2024
  classification: 813/.54
  identifier: 9780807181539
  identifier: 0807181536
  identifier: 9780807182321
  identifier: 9780807182314
  identifier: 2023045243
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 231128
    record change date: 20241023183408.7
    record identifier: in00004792972