Shreds of matter : Cormac McCarthy and the concept of nature /
"Julius Greve offers a nuanced and innovative take on the writer's ostensible localism and the ecocentric perspective on the world that is assumed by most critics. In opposing both the standard interpretations of McCarthy's novels as either critical of persisting American ideologies--...
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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | inglês |
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Hanover, New Hampshire :
Dartmouth College Press,
[2018]
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| coleção: | Re-mapping the transnational.
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| Acesso em linha: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1730605 |
Sumário:
- Introduction. Cormac McCarthy's Concept of Nature
- "Trailing the Cord": Literary Descent and the Ethos of Ecology
- "Shreds of Matter": Physiocentrism and Transnational Speculation
- "Cloaca Maxima": Ontological Decay, or the Decomposition of Nature
- "Another Kind of Clay": Physiophilosophy and War
- "Malignant Life": Indifference, Identity, and Narrative Extainment
- "The Ashes of Its Ruin": Writing Nature between Orphism and Prometheanism
- Conclusion. Naturphilosophie and the Literature of Nature.