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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Monk, Nicholas
Titre(s) : True and living prophet of destruction [Texte imprimé] : Cormac McCarthy and modernity / Nicholas Monk
Publication : Albuquerque : University of New Mexico press, copyright 2016
Description matérielle : xviii, 278 pages ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-259) and index
Cormac McCarthy s work sounds warnings of impending apocalypse, but it also implies
that redemption remains available. Nicholas Monk argues that McCarthy s response to
the modern world is more subtle and less laden with despair than many realize, and
that his work represents an understanding of the world that transcends the political
divisions of right and left, escapes the reductive nature of identity politics, and
looks to futures beyond the immediately adjacent. He positions McCarthy as an acute
chronicler of the American condition at the beginning of a new century. Tracing the
development of modernity, Monk explores the associated political and philosophical
undercurrents in McCarthy and identifies how they are generated and what they oppose.
He focuses on language, aesthetics, violence, the spiritual, and the natural environment
and the animals that inhabit it. He examines the experience of engaging with McCarthy
s fiction in order to reveal why so many people report that reading Cormac McCarthy
changed my life. -- Amazon.com
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Cormac McCarthy and modernity
Sujet(s) : McCarthy, Cormac (1933-2023) -- Critique et interprétation
McCarthy, Cormac (1933-2023) -- Style
Civilisation moderne -- Dans la littérature
Violence -- Dans la littérature
Modernisme (littérature) -- États-Unis
Indice(s) Dewey :
813.54 (23e éd.) = Roman américain de langue anglaise - 1945-1999 [critique]
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780826356796. - ISBN 0826356796. - ISBN 9780826356802 (erroné) (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb468261313
Notice n° :
FRBNF46826131
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction ; Modernity's "I" and the civilized barbarian ; From nihilism to globalization
; Modernity and the West: Blood meridian, The border trilogy, and No country for old
men ; Modernity and the South: the Appalachian novels, The gardener's son, and The
stonemason ; Violence fast and slow ; Learning from Cormac McCarthy ; A resonance
like music ; Journeys of spiritual formation ; The earth shall weep ; The beautiful
image ; Doing things with words ; Marginal worlds, marginal languages.