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- ISBN-13
- 9780415806114
- Book Title
- The Western Landscape in Cormac McCarthy and Wallace Stegner
- ISBN
- 9780415806114
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Routledge
ISBN-10
0415806119
ISBN-13
9780415806114
eBay Product ID (ePID)
72551372
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
264 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Western Landscape in Cormac Mccarthy and Wallace Stegner : Myths of the Frontier
Publication Year
2009
Subject
Subjects & Themes / Nature, General, Literary, American / General, American / Regional
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography
Series
Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2009-022157
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
Series Volume Number
12
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction: A Changing Landscape Chapter 1: Myth, Environment, Gender Chapter 2: Stegner's West Chapter 3: McCarthy's Western Fictions Conclusion: Across a Great Divide Notes Bibliography Index
Synopsis
The western American landscape has always had great significance in American thinking, requiring an unlikely union between frontier mythology and the reality of a fragile western environment. Additionally it has borne the burden of being a gendered space, seen by some as the traditional "virgin land" of the explorers and pioneers, subject to masculine desires, and by others as a masculine space in which the feminine is neither desired nor appreciated. Both Wallace Stegner and Cormac McCarthy focus on this landscape and environment; its spiritual, narrative, symbolic, imaginative, and ideological force is central to their work. In this study, McGilchrist shows how their various treatments of these issues relate to the social climates (pre- and post-Vietnam era) in which they were written, and how despite historical discontinuities, both Stegner and McCarthy reveal a similar unease about the effects of the myth of the frontier on American thought and life. The gendering of the landscape is revealed as indicative of the attempts to deny the failure of the myth, and to force the often numinous western landscape into parameters which will never contain it. Stegner's pre-Vietnam sensibility allows the natural world to emerge tentatively triumphant from the ruins of frontier mythology, whereas McCarthy's conclusions suggest a darker future for the West in particular and America in general. However, McGilchrist suggests that the conclusion of McCarthy's Border Trilogy, upon which her arguments regarding McCarthy are largely based, offers a gleam of hope in its final conclusion of acceptance of the feminine.
LC Classification Number
PS3563.C337Z77 2010
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