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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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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Publisher Address: | Cham : |
Publication Dates: | 2017. |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46957-7 |
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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. |