Cormac Mccarthy's Violent Destinies : The Poetics of Determinism and Fatalism.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Rick Wallach -- Introduction by Brad Bannon and John Vanderheide -- Chapter 1: Romance and Naturalism in Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses -- Chapter 2: "All Things Fought": Fate, Violence, and the Illusion of a Lockean Social Contract in Cormac McCarthy's Child of God -- Chapter 3: God, Evil, Suffering, and Human Destiny in the Border Trilogy: Learning from the "Teachers" -- Chapter 4: Guns and Material Determinism in The Road -- Chapter 5: Holden and Chigurh: Cormac McCarthy and the Ethics of Power -- Chapter 6: Mysteries of the Meridian Revealed: McCarthy's Anachronistic Tarot -- Chapter 7: Doom's Adumbration: Suttree and the Problem of Fatalism -- Chapter 8: "A Clamorous Tide of Unforeseen Consequence": Heimarmene in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy -- Chapter 9: Fatal Loss and Technological Blindness in McCarthy's Tennessee Novels -- Chapter 10: Freaking Determinism: The Image of the Wild Man in Blood Meridian -- Chapter 11: "Archives of Our Own Devising": Structural Fatality in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West -- Contributors -- Index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

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