Cormac McCarthy is a writer informed by an intense curiosity. His interests range from the natural world, to philosophy and religion, to history and culture. Cormac McCarthy in Context offers readers the opportunity to understand how various influences inform his rich body of work. The collection explores the relationship McCarthy has with his favourite authors, writers such as Herman Melville, William Faulkner, and Ernest Hemingway. Other contexts are tremendously informative, including the American Romance tradition of the nineteenth century as well as modernity and the modernist literary movement. Influence and context are of absolute importance in understanding McCarthy, who is now being understood as one of the most significant authors of the contemporary period.
| ISBN: | 9781108488839 |
| Publication date: | 2nd January 2020 |
| Author: | Steven California State University, Bakersfield Frye |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 418 pages |
| Series: | Literature in Context |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: general Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary reference works |