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Morality in Cormac McCarthy's Fiction : Souls at Hazard /

This book argues that McCarthy s works convey a profound moral vision and explores how McCarthy uses intertextuality, moral philosophy, and questions of genre to advance that vision. Russell M. Hillier focuses upon the ways in which McCarthy s fiction is in ceaseless conversation with literary and p...

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Main Authors: Hillier, Russell M. (Author)
Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Published: Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: Cham :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Literature.
Literature, Modern > 20th century.
Literature, Modern > 21st century.
Ethics.
Contemporary Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46957-7
Summary: This book argues that McCarthy s works convey a profound moral vision and explores how McCarthy uses intertextuality, moral philosophy, and questions of genre to advance that vision. Russell M. Hillier focuses upon the ways in which McCarthy s fiction is in ceaseless conversation with literary and philosophical tradition, examining McCarthy s investment in influential thinkers from Marcus Aurelius to Hannah Arendt, and poets, playwrights, and novelists from Dante and Shakespeare to Fyodor Dostoevsky and Antonio Machado. Hillier shows how McCarthy s fiction grapples with abiding moral and metaphysical issues: the nature and problem of evil; the idea of God or the transcendent; the credibility of heroism in the modern age; the question of moral choice and action; the possibility of faith, hope, love, and goodness; the meaning and limits of civilization; and the definition of what it is to be human. This study should appeal alike to readers, teachers, and scholars of Cormac McCarthy. .
Carrier Form: 1 online resource(X,295pages)
ISBN: 9783319469577
Index Number: PN695
CLC: I712.074
Contents: Chapter 1 -- Introduction -- Chapter 2. Give the Devil His Due : Judge Holden s Design in Blood Meridian -- Chapter 3. Antic Clay ?: The Competing Ethical Appeals of Blood Meridian -- Chapter 4. A Knowing Deep in the Bone : Cowboy Stoicism and Tragic Heroism in All the Pretty Horses -- Chapter 5. Like Some Supplicant to the Darkness Over Them All : The Good of John Grady Cole in Cities of the Plain -- Chapter 6. Nothing is Crueler Than a Coward : No Country for Old Men and The Counselor as Tragic Fables of the Contemporary Southwest -- Chapter 7. Coda The Good of Story in The Road -- Bibliography -- Index.

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