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The Late Modernism of Cormac McCarthy

副标题: (Contributions to the Study of World Literature)

ISBN: 9780313322273

出版社: Praeger

出版年: 2002-08-30

页数: 216

定价: USD 102.95

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介


Offers a new interpretation of Cormac McCarthy's fiction in the context of modernist aesthetics. Through close examination of the formal as well as thematic organization of Cormac McCarthy's eight novels, this volume offers a radically new assessment of the work of an author who has often been described as one of the greatest contemporary American novelists. In opposition to existing McCarthy scholarship-which tends to concentrate on the regional dimensions of his work, viewing it within the literary and mythopoetic traditions of the South and Southwest-Holloway argues that McCarthy's full significance can only be understood if his work is contextualized within the broader political, economic, and intellectual discourses of the period in which his novels have been produced. Drawing on the ideas of Marxist thinkers such as Fredric Jameson, George Lukacs, and Jean-Paul Sartre, he shows how McCarthy's late modernism resists many of the postmodern assumptions about literary narrative that have come to shape our understanding of aesthetics in recent times.