Reading the World: Cormac McCarthy's Tennessee Period - Softcover

Luce, Dianne C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1570039887 ISBN 13: 9781570039881

Publisher: University South Carolina Pr, 2011

Synopsis

Explores the historical and philosophical contexts of Cormac McCarthy's early works to demonstrate he integrates literary realism with the imagery and myths of Platonic, gnostic, and existentialist philosophies to create a unique vision of the world.

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Review:

In Reading the World, Dianne C. Luce offers an extensive treatment of the southern novels of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winning author Cormac McCarthy. Luce s study is as valuable as it is ambitious, blending with precision the local and historical with the universal and philosophical and thus charting the process by which the literal content of individual experience is employed in McCarthy s fiction to both aesthetic and philosophical ends. Steven Frye, California State University, Bakersfield, and author of Understanding Cormac McCarthy"

About the Author:

President of the Cormac McCarthy Society, Dianne C. Luce retired from Midlands Technical College in Columbia, South Carolina, where she served as an English instructor, department chair, and associate dean of arts and sciences. She is coeditor with Edwin T. Arnold of Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy and A Cormac McCarthy Companion: The Border Trilogy.

About this edition

• Publisher: University South Carolina Pr
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1570039887
• ISBN 13: 9781570039881
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328