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PublisherBloomsbury Academic & Professional

ISBN-101501341774

ISBN-139781501341779

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Number of Pages264 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameCormac Mccarthy's Borders and Landscapes

SubjectAmerican / General

Publication Year2018

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism

AuthorLouise Jillett

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight13.3 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsLou Jillett has drawn together a collection of essays by both established and up-and-coming McCarthy scholars that covers the full range of the author's career, but which also focuses on ecocritical and bioregional approaches to the author's work. Much of the previous scholarship in that area has focuses on The Road , as Jillett notes in her preface, but clearly inquiries in to topics like frontier violence, nomadism, and borders or liminal thresholds (as three of the five sections of the collection are titled) are both contemporarily relevant and applicable to all of McCarthy's work. And in a nod to the collection's origins, comparisons with the Australian authors Patrick White and Tim Winton are also included. Jillett has curated an excellent addition to McCarthy studies, and anyone who wants to know what Cormackians are talking about these days would do well to seek it out., "A major event in McCarthy studies ... Jillett's edited book deserves high praise ... [It] opens up an as yet understudied field of research within McCarthy scholarship ... A much-needed book that conjoins the ecocritical and the media-theoretical perspectives within the transnational community of McCarthy scholars ... An indispensable guide for those interested in the latest developments of McCarthy studies." - The Cormac McCarthy Journal

Dewey Decimal813.54

Table Of ContentPreface Lou Jillett (University of Western Sydney, Australia) Frontier Violence 1. Doomed Enterprises at Caborca: The Henry Crabb Expedition of 1857 and McCarthy's Unquiet American Boys Dianne Luce (Midlands Technical College, USA) 2. Creatureliness and Justice in Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses Lucy Neave (Australian National University, Australia) 3. Terra Damnata: The Anticosmic Mysticism of Blood Meridian Petra Mundik (University of Western Australia, Australia) Comparative Literature and Landscape 4. "Knowledge Was Never a Matter of Geography": Patrick White and Cormac McCarthy Jan Nordby Gretlund (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) 5. McCarthy, W.G. Sebald and A.N. Whitehead: Metaphysical Prose Tom Lee (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia) 6. Cormac McCarthy and Tim Winton: Working "From the Ecosystem Up" Joel Found (University of Southampton, UK) Bioregionalism and Nomadism in McCarthy's Western Literature 7. The Blood of a Nomad: Environmental Stylistics and All the Pretty Horses Dave Gugin (University of Guam, Guam) 8. Baroque Meridians: Between Myth and Actuality on the American Frontier Kate Montague (University of New South Wales, Australia) 9. Cormac McCarthy's Topologies of Violence Katja Rebmann (University of Warwick, UK) Liminal Thresholds 10. Textual Borders in Cormac McCarthy's Novels: The Poetics of Paragraph Breaks in The Road Beatrice Trotignon (Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Larca, France) 11. Fl'nerie, Vagrancy and Voluntary Exile in Cormac McCarthy's Suttree Lou Jillett (University of Western Sydney, Australia) 12. Suttree, Flaubert, Joyce Anthony Uhlmann (University of Western Sydney, Australia) Interdisciplinary Approaches 13. Western Scourge: Myth, Language and Law in Blood Meridian and Deadwood Paul Sheehan (Macquarie University, Australia) 14. McCarthy's Time Image David Otto Fitzgerald (University of Sydney, Australia) 15. What's Wrong With What's Wrong With The Counselor Peter Josyph (Independent Scholar and Painter, USA) Bibliography List of Contributors Index

SynopsisCormac McCarthy's work is attracting an increasing number of scholars and critics from a range of disciplines within the humanities and beyond, from political philosophy to linguistics and from musicology to various branches of the sciences. Cormac McCarthy's Borders and Landscapes contributes to this developing field of research, investigating the way McCarthy's writings speak to other works within the broader fields of American literature, international literature, border literature, and other forms of comparative literature. It also explores McCarthy's literary antecedents and the movements out of which his work has emerged, such as modernism, romanticism, naturalism, eco-criticism, genre-based literature (western, southern gothic), folkloric traditions and mythology.

LC Classification NumberPS3563.C337Z635 2018