Manuel Broncano

Religion in Cormac McCarthy's Fiction

Apocryphal Borderlands

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Produktbeschreibung

This book addresses the religious scope of Cormac McCarthy's fiction, one of the most controversial issues in studies of his work. Broncano visits McCarthy's apocryphal narrative of the Southwest in search of the religious foundations that support the narrative architecture of the texts, from Blood Meridian to The Road.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9781138654471
• ISBN-10: 1138654477
• Artikelnr.: 44660321

Autorenporträt

Manuel Broncano is Professor of American Literature and Chair of the Department of Language and Literature at Texas A&M International University, US

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword, Rick Wallach Introduction. Cormac McCarthy's Religious Enigma 1.
The World as a Tale: Preliminary Considerations in Theory 2. Genesis of a
Cursed Territory: Blood Meridian 3. Cicatrices and Wounds on the Skin of
History: All the Pretty Horses 4. Of Knights and Wolves and Witnesses: The
Crossing 5. The Virgin, the Whore, the Pimp, and the Monk: Cities of the
Plain 6. The Devil's Territory Revisited: No Country for Old Men 7. Grocery
Shopping in the Commissary of Hell: The Road Epilogue. The Tale of a World
that Was