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A bloody and barbarous god : the metaphysics of Cormac McCarthy
- Title
- A bloody and barbarous god : the metaphysics of Cormac McCarthy / Petra Mundik.
- Author
- Mundik, Petra, 1984-
- Publication
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2016.
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Details
- Description
- vi, 426 pages; 24 cm
- Alternative Title
- Metaphysics of Cormac McCarthy
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-412) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction." A direct apprehension of reality": Cormac McCarthy and the perennial philosophy -- "Terra damnata": anticosmic mysticism in Blood meridian -- "Suzerain of the earth": the mystery of the judge in Blood meridian -- "Disciples of a new faith": satanic parody in Blood meridian -- "This luminosity in beings so endarkened": gnostic soteriology in Blood meridian -- "Diverging equity": the nature of existence in All the pretty horses -- "All was fear and marvel": positive and negative epiphanies in The crossing, Book one -- "The illusion of proximity": transcendence and immanence in The crossing, Book two -- "Mourners in the darkness": blindness and insight in The crossing, Book three -- "The right and godmade sun": destiny and salvation in The crossing, Book four -- "Beauty and loss are one": transience and fate in Cities of the plain -- "The bloody and barbarous god": sin and forgiveness in Cities of the plain -- "That man who is all men": the illusory and the real in the epilogue to The border trilogy -- "In all that dark and all that cold": good and evil in No country for old men -- "All things of grace and beauty": the presence of the sacred in The road.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-8558
- ISBN
- 9780826356703
- 0826356702
- LCCN
- 2015025658
- OCLC
- 919068047
- Author
- Mundik, Petra, 1984- author.
- Title
- A bloody and barbarous god : the metaphysics of Cormac McCarthy / Petra Mundik.
- Publisher
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2016.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-412) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-8558