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The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Steven Frye
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Description for The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Paperback. This book provides a sophisticated introduction to the life and work of Cormac McCarthy appropriate for scholars, teachers and general readers. Editor(s): Frye, Steven. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. Num Pages: 230 pages, 5 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 149 x 14. Weight in Grams: 332.
Cormac McCarthy both embodies and redefines the notion of the artist as outsider. His fiction draws on recognizable American themes and employs dense philosophical and theological subtexts, challenging readers by depicting the familiar as inscrutably foreign. The essays in this Companion offer a sophisticated yet concise introduction to McCarthy's difficult and provocative work. The contributors, an international team of McCarthy scholars, analyze some of the most well-known and commonly taught novels - Outer Dark, Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses and The Road - while providing detailed treatments of McCarthy's work in cinema, including the many adaptations of his novels ... Read more
Cormac McCarthy both embodies and redefines the notion of the artist as outsider. His fiction draws on recognizable American themes and employs dense philosophical and theological subtexts, challenging readers by depicting the familiar as inscrutably foreign. The essays in this Companion offer a sophisticated yet concise introduction to McCarthy's difficult and provocative work. The contributors, an international team of McCarthy scholars, analyze some of the most well-known and commonly taught novels - Outer Dark, Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses and The Road - while providing detailed treatments of McCarthy's work in cinema, including the many adaptations of his novels ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
223
Condition
New
Series
Cambridge Companions to Literature
Number of Pages
230
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107644809
SKU
V9781107644809
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About Steven Frye
Steven Frye is Professor of English at California State University, Bakersfield, and President of the Cormac McCarthy Society. He is the author of Understanding Cormac McCarthy and Historiography and Narrative Design in the American Romance, as well as numerous articles on Cormac McCarthy, Herman Melville and other novelists of the American romance tradition and the literature of the American West. ... Read more
Reviews for The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
'The collection works best when moving beyond the generalities of genre to the specificities of history and the singularities of style.' The Times Literary Supplement