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Styles of Extinction: Cormac McCarthy´s The Road
Julian Murphet (Ed.)
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Description for Styles of Extinction: Cormac McCarthy´s The Road
Hardback. This collection shows how Cormac McCarthy's The Road reacts aesthetically to many of the ethical, ontological, and political concerns that define our times. Editor(s): Steven, Mark; Murphet, Julian. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 358.
The Politics and Aesthetics of Cormac McCarthy's The Road brings together several leading literary scholars, one major philosopher, as well as a handful of emerging critical voices, all of whom deploy their own specialist methods in order to think through this bestselling, Zeitgeist-defining event of contemporary literature. There are two dominant modes of analysis gathered here: the first, performed by Julian Murphet, Paul Sheehan, and Mark Steven, is to locate the novel within its political, spiritual, and economic climates; the second, whose exponents include Paul Patton, Sean Pryor, Chris Danta, and Grace Hellyer, deals with the formal dimensions of McCarthy's ... Read more
The Politics and Aesthetics of Cormac McCarthy's The Road brings together several leading literary scholars, one major philosopher, as well as a handful of emerging critical voices, all of whom deploy their own specialist methods in order to think through this bestselling, Zeitgeist-defining event of contemporary literature. There are two dominant modes of analysis gathered here: the first, performed by Julian Murphet, Paul Sheehan, and Mark Steven, is to locate the novel within its political, spiritual, and economic climates; the second, whose exponents include Paul Patton, Sean Pryor, Chris Danta, and Grace Hellyer, deals with the formal dimensions of McCarthy's ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Continuum Publishing Corporation
Number of pages
160
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781441169341
SKU
V9781441169341
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About Julian Murphet (Ed.)
Mark Steven is a PhD Candidate at the University of Sydney, Australia, where he teaches media, popular culture, and cultural theory and convenes the Modern and Contemporary Literature and Culture research cluster. He has published articles and chapters on literature, cinema, and philosophy. Julian Murphet is Professor of Modern Film and Literature at the University of New South Wales, Australia. ... Read more
Reviews for Styles of Extinction: Cormac McCarthy´s The Road
"A series of brilliant illuminations of McCarthy's great darkness, and great literary power. This book carries the fire."
Michael Zeitlin, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of British Columbia, Canada "A timely study of McCarthy, featuring an excellent line-up of some of the very best emerging and established scholars working in literary studies, film studies, and philosophy."
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Michael Zeitlin, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of British Columbia, Canada "A timely study of McCarthy, featuring an excellent line-up of some of the very best emerging and established scholars working in literary studies, film studies, and philosophy."
Alex ... Read more