Shreds of Matter: Cormac McCarthy and the Concept of Nature (Re-Mapping the Tran

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Publisher
Dartmouth College
ISBN-10
1512603392
ISBN-13
9781512603392
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Product Key Features

Number of Pages
360 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Shreds of Matter : Cormac Mccarthy and the Concept of Nature
Subject
Subjects & Themes / Nature, American / General
Publication Year
2018
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Author
Julius Greve
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
22.3 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.6 in

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Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2018-039430
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
813.54
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments * List of Abbreviations * Introduction: Cormac McCarthy's Concept of Nature * "Trailing the Cord": Literary Descent and the Ethos of Ecology * "Shreds of Matter": Physiocentrism and Transnational Speculation * "Cloaca Maxima": Ontological Decay, or the Decomposition of Nature * "Another Kind of Clay": Physiophilosophy and War * "Malignant Life": Indifference, Identity, and Narrative Extainment * "The Ashes of Its Ruin": Writing Nature between Orphism and Prometheanism * Conclusion: Naturphilosophie and the Literature of Nature * Notes * Bibliography * Index
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Shreds of Matter: Cormac McCarthy and the Concept of Nature offers a nuanced and innovative take on McCarthy's ostensible localism and, along with it, the ecocentric perspective on the world that is assumed by most critics. In opposing the standard interpretations of McCarthy's novels as critical either of persisting American ideologies--such as manifest destiny and imperialism--or of the ways in which humanity has laid waste to planet Earth, Greve instead emphasizes the author's interest both in the history of science and in the mythographical developments of religious discourse. Greve aims to counter traditional interpretations of McCarthy's work and at the same time acknowledge their partial truth, taking into account the work of Friedrich W. J. Schelling and Lorenz Oken, contemporary speculative realism, and Bertrand Westphal's geocriticism. Further, newly discovered archival material sheds light on McCarthy's immersion in the metaphysical question par excellence: What is nature?, Shreds of Matter: Cormac McCarthy and the Concept of Nature offers a nuanced and innovative take on McCarthy's ostensible localism and, along with it, the ecocentric perspective on the world that is assumed by most critics. In opposing the standard interpretations of McCarthy's novels as critical either of persisting American ideologies-such as manifest destiny and imperialism-or of the ways in which humanity has laid waste to planet Earth, Greve instead emphasizes the author's interest both in the history of science and in the mythographical developments of religious discourse. Greve aims to counter traditional interpretations of McCarthy's work and at the same time acknowledge their partial truth, taking into account the work of Friedrich W. J. Schelling and Lorenz Oken, contemporary speculative realism, and Bertrand Westphal's geocriticism. Further, newly discovered archival material sheds light on McCarthy's immersion in the metaphysical question par excellence: What is nature?
LC Classification Number
PS3563.C337Z667 2019

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