Cormac McCarthy's Violent Destinies (eBook, PDF)

The Poetics of Determinism and Fatalism
Redaktion: Bannon, Brad; Vanderheide, John

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Since the release of his first novel, The Orchard Keeper, in 1965, Cormac McCarthy's characters, intricate plots, and sometimes forbidding settings have captivated the attention of countless readers while exploring deep philosophical problems, including that of human agency and free will. This multiauthor 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. Essayists over the course of eleven chapters show how McCarthy's protagonists and antagonists often confront grotesque realities and destinies, and find themselves prey to incessant subconscious and uncontrollable forces. In the process, these scholars reveal that McCarthy's works arrive thoroughly tinctured with religious complexities, ambiguities of ancient and modern thinking, and profoundly splintered notions of morality, freedom, and ethics. Consequently, McCarthy's philosophical depth, mastery of language, and sometimes shocking psychological analysis are brought into sharp focus for longtime readers. With new scholarship from eminent critics, an accessible style, and precise attention to the lesser-known works, Cormac McCarthy's Violent Destinies re-introduces the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist's work under the twin themes of fatalism and determinism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Tennessee Press
• Seitenzahl: 349
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781621904168
• Artikelnr.: 73219959

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.