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Cormac McCarthy’s Borders and Landscapes

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2016
Tongue
English
Leaves
266
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

Cormac 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part 1: Frontier Violence
1. Doomed Enterprise at Caborca: The Henry Crabb Expedition of 1857 and McCarthy’s Unquiet American Boys
2. Creatureliness and Justice in Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses
3. Terra Damnata: The Anticosmic Mysticism of Blood Meridian
Part 2: Comparative Literature and Landscape
4. “Knowledge Was Never a Matter of Geography”: Patrick White and Cormac McCarthy
5. McCarthy, W. G. Sebald, and A. N. Whitehead: Metaphysical Prose
6. Cormac McCarthy and Tim Winton: Working “From the Ecosystem Up”
Part 3: Bioregionalism and Nomadism in McCarthy’s Western Literature
7. The Blood of a Nomad: Environmental Stylistics and All the Pretty Horses
8. Baroque Meridians: Between Myth and Actuality on the American Frontier
9. Cormac McCarthy’s Topologies of Violence
Part 4: Liminal Thresholds
10. Textual Borders in Cormac McCarthy’s Novels: The Poetics of Paragraph Breaks in The Road
11. Flânerie, Vagrancy, and Voluntary Exile in Suttree
12. Suttree, Joyce, and Flaubert
Part 5: Interdisciplinary Approaches
13. Western Scourge: Myth, Language, and Law in Blood Meridian and Deadwood
14. McCarthy’s Time Image
15. What’s Wrong with What’s Wrong with The Counselor
Bibliography
Contributors
Index

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