Understanding Cormac McCarthy
by Frye, Steven
fromUnderstanding contemporary American literature
"Frye provides extensive readings of each novel, charting the trajectory of McCarthy's development as a writer who invigorates literary culture both past and present through a blend of participation, influence, and aesthetic transformation. He explores the early works of the Ten…
Understanding Cormac McCarthy
by Frye, Steven
fromUnderstanding contemporary American literature
Understanding Cormac McCarthy
by Frye, Steven
fromUnderstanding contemporary American literature
Understanding Cormac McCarthy
by Frye, Steven
fromUnderstanding contemporary American literature
Steven Frye offers a comprehensive treatment of Cormac McCarthy's fiction to date, dealing with the author's aesthetic and thematic concerns, his philosophical and religious influences, and his participation in Western literary traditions. Frye provides extensive readings of eac…
Understanding Cormac McCarthy
by Frye, Steven
fromUnderstanding contemporary American literature
Named by Harold Bloom as one of the most significant American novelists of our time, Cormac McCarthy has been honored with the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for All the Pretty Horses, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for…
"Explains Cormac McCarthy's consistent philosophical preoccupations across the span of his literary output. Provides a vital interpretive framework for understanding Cormac McCarthy's literary and philosophical perspectives. Offers a systematic study of distinctly philosophical …
Explains Cormac McCarthy's consistent philosophical preoccupations across the span of his literary output.
Explains Cormac McCarthy's consistent philosophical preoccupations across the span of his literary output.
'The Crossing' by Cormac McCarthy, the Jewish Museum Berlin by Daniel Libeskind, and 'Wings of Desire' by Wim Wenders call on us to face up to, then reflect upon the phenomena of loss, displacement, violence, witnessing, mortality, and responsibility. The way these saturated, ov…