{"product_id":"understanding-cormac-mccarthy-9781611170184","title":"Understanding Cormac McCarthy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA roadmap to the dark and mythic topography of McCarthy's fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNamed by Harold Bloom as one of the most significant American novelists of our time, Cormac McCarthy has been honored with the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for \u003ci\u003eAll the Pretty Horses, \u003c\/i\u003e the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for \u003ci\u003eThe Road, \u003c\/i\u003e and the coveted MacArthur Fellowship. Steven Frye offers a comprehensive treatment of McCarthy's fiction to date, dealing with the author's aesthetic and thematic concerns, his philosophical and religious influences, and his participation in Western literary traditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrye provides extensive readings of each novel, charting the trajectory of McCarthy's development as a writer who invigorates literary culture both past and present through a blend of participation, influence, and aesthetic transformation. \u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Cormac McCarthy\u003c\/i\u003e explores the early works of the Tennessee period in the context of the \"romance\" genre, the southern gothic and grotesque, as well as the carnivalesque. A chapter is devoted to \u003ci\u003eBlood Meridian, \u003c\/i\u003e a novel that marks McCarthy's transition to the West and his full recognition as a major force in American letters. In the final two chapters, Frye explores McCarthy's Border Trilogy and his later works-- specifically \u003ci\u003eNo Country for Old Men\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Road\u003c\/i\u003e--addressing the manner in which McCarthy's preoccupation with violence and human depravity exists alongside a perpetual search for meaning, purpose, and value. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrye provides scholars, students, and general readers alike with a clearly argued foundational examination of McCarthy's novels in their historical and literary contexts as an ideal roadmap illuminating the author's work as it charts the dark and mythic topography of the American frontier.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steven Frye\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of South Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/19\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Understanding Contemporary American Literature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.51d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781611170184","brand":"University of South Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42440475574409,"sku":"9781611170184","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_b0d05bdd-62c3-4195-bca3-78cc316beb19.jpg?v=1716238686","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/understanding-cormac-mccarthy-9781611170184","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}