{"product_id":"tangential-terrains-cormac-mccarthys-geoaesthetics-9781647792312","title":"Tangential Terrains: Cormac McCarthy's Geoaesthetics","description":"\u003ci\u003eTangential Terrains\u003c\/i\u003e is an ecocritical study of the work of Cormac McCarthy, focusing primarily on his depictions of the desert and inorganic nature in \u003ci\u003eBlood Meridian\u003c\/i\u003e. Close readings of previously unexamined archival manuscripts and drafts shed new light on McCarthy's compositional processes, revealing how the development of written matter in the novel-in-progress can correspond to geological processes like erosion, erratics, stratification, and continental drift. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlood Meridian\u003c\/i\u003e's emergent geoaesthetics reveals forces operating according to other-than-human principles, as literary desert terrains retain a passive resistance, or \u003ci\u003eweak agency\u003c\/i\u003e, which presents a radical disturbance of anthropocentrism, mirrored in the novel's style. Though the mediated unstable deserts in \u003ci\u003eBlood Meridian\u003c\/i\u003e defy appropriation, they are neither untouched nor untouchable: the borderlands bear the wounds and \"blood meridians\" of a non-chronological history of violence, tangential to the massacres of Native American and Mexican peoples depicted in the novel. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Stefanie Heine's reading of \u003ci\u003eBlood Meridian\u003c\/i\u003e offers a crucial contribution to and intervention in contemporary ecocriticism, Anthropocene criticism, and New Materialist theories, encouraging readers to critically rethink customary notions of entanglement, kinship, and agency.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stefanie Heine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nevada Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Western Literature and Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.19w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781647792312","brand":"University of Nevada Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45342480629897,"sku":"9781647792312","price":59.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_fb65fc87-c0f3-455c-af3a-a0aae26ea492.jpg?v=1772516429","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/tangential-terrains-cormac-mccarthys-geoaesthetics-9781647792312","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}