John Cant

Cormac McCarthy and the Myth of American Exceptionalism

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Produktbeschreibung

This overview of McCarthy's published work to date, including: the short stories he published as a student, his novels, stage play and TV film script, locates him as a icocolastic writer, engaged in deconstructing America's vision of itself as a nation with an exceptionalist role in the world. Introductory chapters outline his personal background and the influences on his early years in Tennessee whilst each of his works is dealt with in a separate chapter listed in chronological order of publication.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 775g
• ISBN-13: 9780415981422
• ISBN-10: 0415981425
• Artikelnr.: 22334348

Autorenporträt

John Cant

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Preliminary
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Personal and Literary Biography
Chapter 3Tennessee Background
Part 2 The Tennessee Texts
Chapter 4 Wake For Susan and A Drowning Incident
Chapter 5 The Orchard Keeper
Chapter 6 Outer Dark
Chapter 7 Child of God
Chapter 8 Suttree
Chapter 9 The Stonemason
Chapter 10 The Gardener's Son
Part 3 The Southwestern Texts
Chapter 11 Blood Meridian
Part 4 The Border Trilogy
Chapter 12 All the Pretty Horses
Chapter 13 The Crossing
Chapter 14 Cities of the Plain
Chapter 15 No Country for Old Men
Chapter 16 Conclusion