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True and Living Prophet of Destruction : Cormac Mccarthy and Modernity.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (298 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780826356802
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: True and Living Prophet of DestructionDDC classification:
  • 813/.54
LOC classification:
  • PS3563.C337Z774 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1: Modernity's I and the Civilized Barbarian -- 2: Modernity: From Nihilism to Globalization -- 3: Modernity and the West: Blood Meridian and the Border Trilogy -- 4: Modernity and the South: The Appalachian Novels, The Gardener's Son, and The Stonemason -- 5: Violence Fast and Slow -- 6: Learning from Cormac McCarthy -- 7: A Resonance like Music -- 8: Journeys of Spiritual Formation -- 9: The Earth Shall Weep -- 10: The Beautiful Image -- 11: Doing Things with Words -- 12: Marginal Worlds, Marginal Languages -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Back Cover.
Summary: Monk 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.".
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Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1: Modernity's I and the Civilized Barbarian -- 2: Modernity: From Nihilism to Globalization -- 3: Modernity and the West: Blood Meridian and the Border Trilogy -- 4: Modernity and the South: The Appalachian Novels, The Gardener's Son, and The Stonemason -- 5: Violence Fast and Slow -- 6: Learning from Cormac McCarthy -- 7: A Resonance like Music -- 8: Journeys of Spiritual Formation -- 9: The Earth Shall Weep -- 10: The Beautiful Image -- 11: Doing Things with Words -- 12: Marginal Worlds, Marginal Languages -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Back Cover.

Monk 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.".

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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