Cormac McCarthy and the Myth of American Exceptionalism / Edition 1

by John Cant

Overview

This overview of McCarthy’s published work to date, including: the short stories he published as a student, his novels, stage play and TV film script, locates him as a icocolastic writer, engaged in deconstructing America’s vision of itself as a nation with an exceptionalist role in the world.

Introductory chapters outline his personal background and the influences on his early years in Tennessee whilst each of his works is dealt with in a separate chapter listed in chronological order of publication.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415981422
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/08/2007
Series:	Studies in Major Literary Authors
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

John Cant teaches film at Essex University and is currently editing the next edition of The Journal of the Cormac McCarthy Society.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Preliminary; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Personal and Literary Biography; Chapter 3Tennessee Background; Part 2 The Tennessee Texts; Chapter 4 Wake For Susan and A Drowning Incident; Chapter 5 The Orchard Keeper; Chapter 6 Outer Dark; Chapter 7 Child of God; Chapter 8 Suttree; Chapter 9 The Stonemason; Chapter 10 The Gardener's Son; Part 3 The Southwestern Texts; Chapter 11 Blood Meridian; Part 4 The Border Trilogy; Chapter 12 All the Pretty Horses; Chapter 13 The Crossing; Chapter 14 Cities of the Plain; Chapter 15 No Country for Old Men; Chapter 16 Conclusion;