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- Cormac McCarthy in Context
- Cormac McCarthy in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Part I Environments
- Part II Literary Contexts: Sources, Influences, Allusions
- Part III Intellectual Contexts
- Part IV Social and Cultural Contexts
- Part V Archives, Critical History, Translation
- Chapter 25 The Archives and the Tennessee Years, I: The Orchard Keeper and Outer Dark
- Chapter 26 The Archives and the Tennessee Years, II: Child of God, The Gardener’s Son, and Suttree
- Chapter 27 The San Marcos Archives: Blood Meridian and the West
- Chapter 28 Letters and Correspondence
- Chapter 29 Cormac McCarthy: A Critical History
- Chapter 30 Translation and International Reception I
- Chapter 31 Translation and International Reception II
- Works Cited
- Index
Chapter 29 - Cormac McCarthy: A Critical History
from Part V - Archives, Critical History, Translation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 December 2019
- Cormac McCarthy in Context
- Cormac McCarthy in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Part I Environments
- Part II Literary Contexts: Sources, Influences, Allusions
- Part III Intellectual Contexts
- Part IV Social and Cultural Contexts
- Part V Archives, Critical History, Translation
- Chapter 25 The Archives and the Tennessee Years, I: The Orchard Keeper and Outer Dark
- Chapter 26 The Archives and the Tennessee Years, II: Child of God, The Gardener’s Son, and Suttree
- Chapter 27 The San Marcos Archives: Blood Meridian and the West
- Chapter 28 Letters and Correspondence
- Chapter 29 Cormac McCarthy: A Critical History
- Chapter 30 Translation and International Reception I
- Chapter 31 Translation and International Reception II
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
This chapter traces the milestones of McCarthy’s career and the history of scholarship devoted to his work. Initial lines of inquiry into McCarthy’s style, influences, and engagement with region, genre, and historical context grow more numerous and nuanced over time, and critical attention gradually turns to moral and religious implications in his work, McCarthy’s treatment of environment and ecology, how his characters and settings reflect changing economic practices and contexts, and McCarthy’s creative process as reflected in his manuscript materials. At present, we see wide interest in writing about how to teach McCarthy to different ages and demographics of students, how best to unpack his nonfiction and make connections to his other work, and how to track in more detail his interest in science and complex systems, especially given his long involvement with the Santa Fe Institute.
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- Cormac McCarthy in Context , pp. 316 - 325Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020