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Cormac McCarthy's Violent Destinies : The Poetics of Determinism and Fatalism
Title
Cormac McCarthy's Violent Destinies : The Poetics of Determinism and Fatalism / edited by Brad Bannon and John Vanderheide.
ISBN
9781621904168
9781621903826
Edition
First edition.
Publication
Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2018]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2023
Copyright Notice Date
©[2018]
Physical Description
1 online resource: illustrations
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Variant and related titles
Project Muse books annual backfile collection 2023.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 17, 2024
Contents
Foreword / Rick Wallach
Introduction / Brad Bannon and John Vanderheide
Romance and naturalism in Cormac McCarthy's All the pretty horses / James Giles
"All things fought": fate, violence, and the illusion of a Lockean social contract in Cormac McCarthy's Child of God / Woods Nash
God, evil, suffering, and human destiny in the Border trilogy: learning from the "Teachers" / Dennis l. Sansom
Guns and material determinism in The road / Rasmus R. Simonsen
Holden and Chigurh: Cormac McCarthy and the ethics of power / Adrian Mioc
Mysteries of the meridian revealed: McCarthy's anachronistic tarot / Robert Kottage
Doom's adumbration: Suttree and the problem of fatalism / John Vanderheide
"A clamorous tide of unforeseen consequence": Heimarmene in Cormac McCarthy's Border trilogy / Petra Mundik
Fatal loss and teleological blindness in McCarthy's Tennessee novels / Brad Bannon
Freaking determinism: the image of the wild man in Blood meridian / Tom Cull
"Archives of our own devising": structural fatality in Cormac McCarthy's Blood meridian or The evening redness in the west / Theo Finigan.
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