The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy (Cambridge Companions to Literature) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107644801 ISBN 13: 9781107644809

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Cormac McCarthy both embodies and redefines the notion of the artist as outsider. His fiction draws on recognizable American themes and employs dense philosophical and theological subtexts, challenging readers by depicting the familiar as inscrutably foreign. The essays in this Companion offer a sophisticated yet concise introduction to McCarthy's difficult and provocative work. The contributors, an international team of McCarthy scholars, analyze some of the most well-known and commonly taught novels - Outer Dark, Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, and The Road - while providing detailed treatments of McCarthy's work in cinema, including the many adaptations of his novels to film. Designed for scholars, teachers, and general readers, and complete with a chronology and bibliography for further reading, this Companion is an essential reference for anyone interested in gaining a deeper understanding of one of America's most celebrated living novelists.

About this title

Book Description:

The text offers essays from an international team of McCarthy scholars, providing a sophisticated introduction to McCarthy's life and works that will appeal to general readers, teachers, and scholars. Essays include broad thematic treatments of multiple works, including Outer Dark, Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, and The Road, and cover McCarthy's extensive work in film.

About the Author:

Steven Frye is Professor of English at California State University, Bakersfield, and President of the Cormac McCarthy Society. He is the author of Understanding Cormac McCarthy and Historiography and Narrative Design in the American Romance, as well as numerous articles on Cormac McCarthy, Herman Melville and other novelists of the American romance tradition and the literature of the American West.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1107644801
• ISBN 13: 9781107644809
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 230
• Editor: Frye Steven