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Title Cormac McCarthy's violent destinies the poetics of determinism and fatalism / edited by Brad Bannon and John Vanderheide
Edition First edition
Published Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2018]

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Contents Foreword / Rick Wallach -- Introduction / Brad Bannon and John Vanderheide -- Romance and naturalism in Cormac McCarthy's All the pretty horses / James Giles -- "All things fought": fate, violence, and the illusion of a Lockean social contract in Cormac McCarthy's Child of God / Woods Nash -- God, evil, suffering, and human destiny in the Border trilogy: learning from the "Teachers" / Dennis l. Sansom -- Guns and material determinism in The road / Rasmus R. Simonsen -- Holden and Chigurh: Cormac McCarthy and the ethics of power / Adrian Mioc -- Mysteries of the meridian revealed: McCarthy's anachronistic tarot / Robert Kottage -- Doom's adumbration: Suttree and the problem of fatalism / John Vanderheide -- "A clamorous tide of unforeseen consequence": Heimarmene in Cormac McCarthy's Border trilogy / Petra Mundik -- Fatal loss and teleological blindness in McCarthy's Tennessee novels / Brad Bannon -- Freaking determinism: the image of the wild man in Blood meridian / Tom Cull -- "Archives of our own devising": structural fatality in Cormac McCarthy's Blood meridian or The evening redness in the west / Theo Finigan
Subject McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT McCarthy, Cormac, 1933- fast
Andrae, A. gnd
McCarthy, Cormac 1933- gnd
Subject Fate and fatalism in literature.
Free will and determinism in literature.
Literature.
Free will and determinism in literature
Fate and fatalism in literature
Fatalismus Motiv
Determinismus Motiv
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000.
Literature: history & criticism.
English.
United States of America, USA.
Literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Bannon, Brad, 1980- editor.
Vanderheide, John, editor
ISBN 9781621904168
1621904164