True and Living Prophet of Destruction by Nicholas Monk, Hardcover, 9780826356796 | Buy online at The Nile
Departments
 Free Returns*

True and Living Prophet of Destruction

Cormac McCarthy and Modernity

Author: Nicholas Monk  

Hardcover

Argues that Cormac McCarthy’s response to the modern world is more subtle and less laden with despair than many realize, and that his work represents an understanding of the world that transcends the political divisions of right and left, escapes the reductive nature of identity politics, and looks to futures beyond the immediately adjacent.

Read more
$175.89
Or pay later with
Check delivery options
Hardcover

PRODUCT INFORMATION

Summary

Argues that Cormac McCarthy’s response to the modern world is more subtle and less laden with despair than many realize, and that his work represents an understanding of the world that transcends the political divisions of right and left, escapes the reductive nature of identity politics, and looks to futures beyond the immediately adjacent.

Read more

Description

Cormac McCarthy’s work sounds warnings of impending apocalypse, but it also implies that redemption remains available. Nicholas Monk argues that McCarthy’s response to the modern world is more subtle and less laden with despair than many realize, and that his work represents an understanding of the world that transcends the political divisions of right and left, escapes the reductive nature of identity politics, and looks to futures beyond the immediately adjacent. He positions McCarthy as an acute chronicler of the American condition at the beginning of a new century.

Tracing the development of modernity, Monk explores the associated political and philosophical undercurrents in McCarthy and identifies how they are generated and what they oppose. He focuses on language, aesthetics, violence, the spiritual, and the natural environment and the animals that inhabit it. He examines the experience of engaging with McCarthy’s fiction in order to reveal why so many people report that “reading Cormac McCarthy changed my life.”

Read more

About the Author

Nicholas Monk is an associate professor in the Department of English and the director of the Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the editor of Intertextual and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cormac McCarthy: Borders and Crossings and a contributor to The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy.

Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Published
30th April 2016
Pages
272
ISBN
9780826356796

Returns

This item is eligible for free returns within 30 days of delivery. See our returns policy for further details.

$175.89
Or pay later with
Check delivery options