The evolving project of Cormac McCarthy /

"The Evolving Project of Cormac McCarthy presents eleven essays of original scholarship that undertake a programmatic reassessment of McCarthy's literary and philosophical worldview. Examining issues of race, morality, history, metaphysics, law, economics, and ecology in McCarthy's wr...

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Other Authors: Elmore, Jonathan (Editor), Elmore, Rick, Ph.D (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2024]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. McCarthy's positive project / Jonathan Elmore and Rick Elmore
  • His disastrous wrath : monstrosity in Child of God / Ahmed Honeini
  • Woods that no one owned : rereading Child of God through The road / Jordan J. Dominy
  • Sorrow at the moving world : nihilistic despair and American exceptionalism in the Border trilogy and The road / Rachel B. Griffis
  • "Whales and men" and its echoes in the Border trilogy / Kateřina Kovářová
  • Cormac McCarthy's idea of race / John Vanderheide
  • The Black and white Jacksons : nonarbitrary racial conflict and the resonance of the racial sign in Faulkner and McCarthy / Peter Lurie
  • Unsettling testimony : settler law and native persistence in Blood meridian / Alex Harmon
  • The frailty of everything revealed at last : Cormac McCarthy and radical atheism / David Deacon
  • The darker picture and the ghost of culture : The sunset limited / Trevor Jackson
  • Chaos, law, and the materiality of McCarthy's language / Vernon W. Cisney
  • McCarthy's foundational critique of individualism and the Western mythos in the epilogue of Cities of the plain / Jonathan Elmore and Rick Elmore.