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Understanding Cormac McCarthy (Understanding Contemporary American Literature)
Steven Frye
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paperback. Originally published in hardcover in 2009 by University of South Carolina Press. Series: Understanding Contemporary American Literature. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 132 x 14. Weight in Grams: 266.
Named 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 All the Pretty Horses, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for The Road, 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. Frye provides extensive readings of each novel, charting the trajectory of McCarthy's development as ... Read more
Named 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 All the Pretty Horses, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for The Road, 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. Frye provides extensive readings of each novel, charting the trajectory of McCarthy's development as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
Understanding Contemporary American Literature
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
South Carolina, United States
ISBN
9781611170184
SKU
V9781611170184
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About Steven Frye
President of the Cormac McCarthy Society, Steven Frye is a professor of American literature at California State University, Bakersfield, the author of Historiography and Narrative Design in the American Romance: A Study of Four Authors, and the editor of Critical Insights: Poe's Tales and Critical Insights: Poe's Poetry.
Reviews for Understanding Cormac McCarthy (Understanding Contemporary American Literature)
Frye offers an excellent synthesis of all McCarthy's novels and a significant overview of the man himself as a means of understanding his creative output. . . . Anyone wishing to understand the significance of McCarthy and the aesthetic transformation of his work over the years will find this a foundational work.- Choice