Cormac McCarthy's Violent Destinies: The Poetics of Determinism and Fatalism

Herausgeber: Bannon, Brad; Vanderheide, John

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Produktbeschreibung

Cormac McCarthy's characters, plots, and sometimes forbidding settings have captivated the attention of readers while exploring deep philosophical problems, including that of human agency and free will. This volume places the full range of his novels in historical, literary, and cultural contexts and shifts the focus of critical engagement to questions of determinism, fatalism, and free will.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Tennessee Press
• Seitenzahl: 349
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 698g
• ISBN-13: 9781621903826
• ISBN-10: 1621903826
• Artikelnr.: 49458555

Autorenporträt

BRAD BANNON is a lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is the author of Jonathan Edwards, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the Supernatural Will in American Literature, forthcoming from Routledge and his essays have appeared in the James Joyce Quarterly, Journal of the History of Ideas, The Cormac McCarthy Journal, and the edited collection Melville and Religion: Visionary of the Word. JOHN VANDERHEIDE is an assistant professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at Huron University College in London, Ontario, Canada. His work has appeared in Arcadia: International Journal of Literary Studies, Cormac McCarthy Journal, and Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy.