Books
|
Buy Now
Unguessed Kinships - Naturalism and the Geography of Hope in Cormac McCarthy (Paperback)
Loot Price: R803
Discovery Miles 8 030
|
|
Unguessed Kinships - Naturalism and the Geography of Hope in Cormac McCarthy (Paperback)
Series: Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
The values of literary naturalism at play in one of America’s
most visionary novelistsIt took six novels and nearly thirty years
for Cormac McCarthy to find commercial success with the National
Book Award–winning All the Pretty Horses, followed by major
prizes, more best sellers, and Hollywood adaptations of his work.
Those successes, though, have obscured McCarthy’s commitment to
an older form of literary expression: naturalism. It is hardly a
secret that McCarthy’s work tends to darker themes: violence,
brutality, the cruel indifference of nature, themes which would not
be out of place in the writing of Jack London or Stephen Crane. But
literary naturalism is more than the oversimplified Darwinism that
many think of. Nature may be red in tooth and claw, and humans are
part of nature, but the humanity depicted in naturalist literature
is capable of love, selflessness, and spirituality, as well. In
Unguessed Kinships, Steven Frye illuminates all these dimensions of
McCarthy’s work. In his novels and plays, McCarthy engages both
explicitly and obliquely with the project of manifest destiny, in
the western drama Blood Meridian, the Tennessee Valley
Authority-era Tennessee novels, and the atomic frontier of
Alamogordo in Cities of the Plain. McCarthy’s concerns are deeply
religious and philosophical, drawing on ancient Greek philosophy,
Gnosticism, and Nietzsche, among other sources. Frye argues for
McCarthy not merely as a naturalist writer but as a naturalist in
the most expansive sense. Unguessed Kinships includes biographical
and historical context in each chapter, widening the appeal of the
text to not just naturalists or McCarthy scholars but anyone
studying the literature of the South or the West.
General
Imprint: |
The University of Alabama Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism |
Release date: |
April 2023 |
Authors: |
Steven Frye
|
Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
194 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8173-6109-9 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
0-8173-6109-X |
Barcode: |
9780817361099 |
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.