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Cormac McCarthy and the signs of sacrament : literature, theology, and the moral of stories
- Title
- Cormac McCarthy and the signs of sacrament : literature, theology, and the moral of stories / Matthew L. Potts.
- Author
- Potts, Matthew L.
- Publication
- New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2015.
- ©2015
- Supplementary Content
- Cover image
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- Description
- vii, 224 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Although scholars have widely acknowledged the prevalence of religious reference in the work of Cormac McCarthy, this is the first book on the most pervasive religious trope in all his works: the image of sacrament, and in particular, of eucharist. Informed by postmodern theories of narrative and Christian theologies of sacrament, Matthew Potts reads the major novels of Cormac McCarthy in a new and insightful way, arguing that their dark moral significance coheres with the Christian theological tradition in difficult, demanding ways. Potts develops this account through an argument that integrates McCarthy's fiction with both postmodern theory and contemporary fundamental and sacramental theology. In McCarthy's novels, the human self is always dispossessed of itself, given over to harm, fate, and narrative. But this fundamental dispossession, this vulnerability to violence and signs, is also one uniquely expressed in and articulated by the Christian sacramental tradition. By reading McCarthy and this theology alongside postmodern accounts of action, identity, subjectivity, and narration, Potts demonstrates how McCarthy exploits Christian theology in order to locate the value of human acts and relations in a way that mimics the dispossessing movement of sacramental signs. This is not to claim McCarthy for theology, necessarily, but it is to assert that McCarthy generates his account of what human goodness might look like in the wake of metaphysical collapse through the explicit use of Christian theology"--
- "Reconceives the moral significance of Cormac McCarthy's novels through a constructive engagement with postmodern theory and Christian theology"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Knowledge -- Chapter Two: Fate -- Chapter Three: Action -- Chapter Four: Story -- Chapter Five: Sacrament -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-5071
- ISBN
- 9781501306556
- 1501306553
- 9781501306563 (ePub) (canceled/invalid)
- 9781501306570 (ePDF) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2015008543
- OCLC
- 898053018
- Author
- Potts, Matthew L., author.
- Title
- Cormac McCarthy and the signs of sacrament : literature, theology, and the moral of stories / Matthew L. Potts.
- Publisher
- New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2015.
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 15-5071