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PublisherUniversity of New Mexico Press

ISBN-100826363342

ISBN-139780826363343

eBay Product ID (ePID)25050067274

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Number of Pages432 Pages

Publication NameBloody and Barbarous God : the Metaphysics of Cormac Mccarthy

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2021

SubjectAmerican / General

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism

AuthorPetra Mundik

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight11.7 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width5.9 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingA

Reviews"Petra Mundik has done readers and scholars of Cormac McCarthy's work a tremendous service by gathering together the disparate arguments about his spiritual vision and its sources and discussing them elegantly and exhaustively. This book is a stunning critical accomplishment."--Rick Wallach, editor of Myth, Legend, Dust: Critical Responses to Cormac McCarthy, "Mundik's book tackles the challenging complexity and darkness of McCarthy's metaphysical vision and finds a consistency of vision throughout his novels that is both profound and--in all senses of the word--illuminating."--Lydia R. Cooper, author of No More Heroes: Narrative Perspective and Morality in Cormac McCarthy

Dewey Decimal813.54

SynopsisA Bloody and Barbarous God investigates the relationship between gnosticism and the perennial philosophy and how these traditions have influenced the later novels of Cormac McCarthy, namely, Blood Meridian , All the Pretty Horses , The Crossing , Cities of the Plain , No Country for Old Men , and The Road ., A Bloody and Barbarous God investigates the relationship between gnosticism and the perennial philosophy and how these traditions have influenced the later novels of Cormac McCarthy, namely, Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain, No Country for Old Men, and The Road., A Bloody and Barbarous God investigates the relationship between gnosticism, a system of thought that argues that the cosmos is evil and that the human spirit must strive for liberation from manifest existence, and the perennial philosophy, a study of the highest common factor in all esoteric religions, and how these traditions have influenced the later novels of Cormac McCarthy, namely Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain, No Country for Old Men, and The Road. Mundik argues that McCarthy continually strives to evolve an explanatory theodicy throughout his work and that his novels are, to a lesser or greater extent, concerned with the meaning of human existence in relation to the presence of evil and the nature of the divine.

LC Classification NumberPS3563.C337Z775 2021