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Cormac McCarthy and the Signs of Sacrament - Literature, Theology, and the Moral of Stories (Paperback)
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Cormac McCarthy and the Signs of Sacrament - Literature, Theology, and the Moral of Stories (Paperback)
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Although scholars have widely acknowledged the prevalence of
religious reference in the work of Cormac McCarthy, this is the
first book on the most pervasive religious trope in all his works:
the image of sacrament, and in particular, of eucharist. Informed
by postmodern theories of narrative and Christian theologies of
sacrament, Matthew Potts reads the major novels of Cormac McCarthy
in a new and insightful way, arguing that their dark moral
significance coheres with the Christian theological tradition in
difficult, demanding ways. Potts develops this account through an
argument that integrates McCarthy's fiction with both postmodern
theory and contemporary fundamental and sacramental theology. In
McCarthy's novels, the human self is always dispossessed of itself,
given over to harm, fate, and narrative. But this fundamental
dispossession, this vulnerability to violence and signs, is also
one uniquely expressed in and articulated by the Christian
sacramental tradition. By reading McCarthy and this theology
alongside postmodern accounts of action, identity, subjectivity,
and narration, Potts demonstrates how McCarthy exploits Christian
theology in order to locate the value of human acts and relations
in a way that mimics the dispossessing movement of sacramental
signs. This is not to claim McCarthy for theology, necessarily, but
it is to assert that McCarthy generates his account of what human
goodness might look like in the wake of metaphysical collapse
through the explicit use of Christian theology.
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