Intertextual and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cormac McCarthy: Borders and Crossings (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415895499 ISBN 13: 9780415895491

Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

This collection offers a fresh approach to the work of Cormac McCarthy, one of the most important contemporary American authors. Essays focus on his work across the genres and/or in constellation with other writers and artists, presenting not only a different "angle" on the work, but setting him within a broader literary and artistic context. Such an approach offers a view of McCarthy that is strikingly different to previous collections that have dealt with the work in an almost exclusively "single author" and/or "single genre" mode. McCarthy’s novels are increasingly regarded as amongst the most rich, the most complex, and the most insightful of all recent literary responses to prevailing conditions in both the USA and beyond, and this collection recognizes the intertextual and interdisciplinary nature of his work. Contributors draw back the curtain on some of McCarthy’s literary ancestors, revealing and analyzing some of the fiction’s key contemporary intertexts, and showing a complex and previously underestimated hinterland of influence. In addition, they look beyond the novel both to other genres in McCarthy’s oeuvre, and to the way these genres have influenced McCarthy’s writing.

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About the Author

Dr. Nicholas Monk is a Research Fellow at the University of Warwick. He has previously published and given conference papers on both Cormac McCarthy and Native American literature. His recent work includes a book on pedagogy and an article on the use of theatre in teaching.

Rick Wallach is Secretary-Treasurer of the Cormac McCarthy Society.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415895499
• ISBN 13: 9780415895491
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Monk Nicholas