Understanding Cormac McCarthy

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The work Understanding Cormac McCarthy represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Understanding Cormac McCarthy

Statement of responsibility

Steven Frye

Creator

• Frye, Steven

Subject

• Literature
• McCarthy, Cormac
• McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-
• McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-
• McCarthy, Cormac, 1933- -- Criticism and interpretation
• McCarthy, Cormac, 1933- | Criticism and interpretation
• Mexican-American Border Region -- In literature
• Mexican-American Border Region | In literature
• North America -- Mexican-American Border Region
• Southern States
• Southern States -- In literature
• Southern States | In literature
• United States, West
• West (U.S.) -- In literature
• West (U.S.) | In literature
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

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 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 Tennessee period in the context of the romance genre, the southern gothic, and the grotesque. A chapter is devoted to Blood Meridian, a novel that marks McCarthy's transition to the West and his full recognition as a major force in American letters. Frye also explores McCarthy's Border Trilogy and his later works-specifically No Country for Old Men and The Road-addressing the manner in which McCarthy's preoccupation with violence and human depravity exists alongside a perpetual search for meaning, purpose, and value

Member of

• Understanding contemporary American literature

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.54

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

LC call number

PS3563.C337

LC item number

Z66 2009

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Understanding contemporary American literature