| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 368 pages) |
| Series |
Studies in major literary authors |
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Studies in major literary authors (Unnumbered)
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Personal and literary biography -- Tennessee background -- Wake for Susan and A Drowning Incident -- The orchard keeper -- Outer dark -- Child of God -- Suttree -- The stonemason -- The gardener's son -- Blood meridian -- All the pretty horses -- The crossing -- Cities of the plain -- No country for old men -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-345) and index |
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"Supplementary bibliography": page 281 |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
McCarthy, Cormac, 1933- fast |
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McCarthy, Cormac. swd |
| Subject |
National characteristics, American, in literature.
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Exceptionalism -- United States
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Exceptionalism
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National characteristics, American, in literature
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Nationalcharakter
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Mythos Motiv
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Kritik
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136094989 |
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1136094989 |
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9780203036310 |
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020303631X |
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9781136095061 |
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1136095063 |
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9781136095146 |
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1136095144 |
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0415875676 |
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9780415875677 |
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