The pastoral vision of Cormac McCarthy

The pastoral vision of Cormac McCarthy / Georg Guillemin.

"Georg Guillemin's visionary approach to the work of Western novelist Cormac McCarthy combines an overall survey of McCarthy's eight novels in print with a comprehensive analysis of the author's evolving ecopastoralism. Using in-depth textual interpretations, Guillemin argues tha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Guillemin, Georg
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2004.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Tarleton State University southwestern studies in the humanities ; no. 18.
Subjects:
McCarthy, Cormac, > 1933-2023 > Criticism and interpretation.
McCarthy, Cormac, > 1933-
McCarthy, Cormac.
Pastoral fiction, American > History and criticism.
Country life in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Literature
Country life in literature
Pastoral fiction, American
Mexican-American Border Region > In literature.
Southern States > In literature.
Tennessee, East > In literature.
North America > Mexican-American Border Region
Southern States
East Tennessee
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the prototypical Suttree
  • "Beyond the world of men" : emergent ecopastoralism in the Southern novels
  • "Optical democracy" : biocentrism in Blood Meridian (1985)
  • "Some site where life had not succeeded" : ecopastoralism in the Border trilogy
  • Conclusion : animism over ecosophy.

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