{"product_id":"understanding-cormac-mccarthy-paperback-1","title":"Understanding Cormac McCarthy - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSteven Frye\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA roadmap to the dark and mythic topography of McCarthy's fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNamed by Harold Bloom as one of the most significant American novelists of our time, Cormac McCarthy has been honored with the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for \u003ci\u003eAll the Pretty Horses, \u003c\/i\u003e the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for \u003ci\u003eThe Road, \u003c\/i\u003e and the coveted MacArthur Fellowship. Steven Frye offers a comprehensive treatment of McCarthy's fiction to date, dealing with the author's aesthetic and thematic concerns, his philosophical and religious influences, and his participation in Western literary traditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrye provides extensive readings of each novel, charting the trajectory of McCarthy's development as a writer who invigorates literary culture both past and present through a blend of participation, influence, and aesthetic transformation. \u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Cormac McCarthy\u003c\/i\u003e explores the early works of the Tennessee period in the context of the \"romance\" genre, the southern gothic and grotesque, as well as the carnivalesque. A chapter is devoted to \u003ci\u003eBlood Meridian, \u003c\/i\u003e a novel that marks McCarthy's transition to the West and his full recognition as a major force in American letters. In the final two chapters, Frye explores McCarthy's Border Trilogy and his later works-- specifically \u003ci\u003eNo Country for Old Men\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Road\u003c\/i\u003e--addressing the manner in which McCarthy's preoccupation with violence and human depravity exists alongside a perpetual search for meaning, purpose, and value. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrye provides scholars, students, and general readers alike with a clearly argued foundational examination of McCarthy's novels in their historical and literary contexts as an ideal roadmap illuminating the author's work as it charts the dark and mythic topography of the American frontier.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA roadmap to the dark and mythic topography of McCarthy's fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA roadmap to the dark and mythic topography of McCarthy's fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSteven Frye\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of American literature at California State University, Bakersfield. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eHistoriography and Narrative Design in the American Romance: A Study of Four Authors\u003c\/i\u003e, editor of \u003ci\u003eCritical Insights: Poe's Tales\u003c\/i\u003e, associate editor of \u003ci\u003eALN: The American Literary Naturalism Newsletter\u003c\/i\u003e, and author of numerous essays on Cormac McCarthy and other novelists of the American romance tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 19, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47335893467385,"sku":"9781611170184","price":42.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/VGpPMjluYlBOeHViWktxUTYxYVR6QT09_2cd01926-12d1-4a56-832a-61aa2284489c.webp?v=1769663866","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/understanding-cormac-mccarthy-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}