By Russell M. Hillier
This ebook argues that McCarthy’s works show a profound ethical imaginative and prescient, and use intertextuality, ethical philosophy, and questions of style to strengthen that imaginative and prescient. It focuses upon the ways that McCarthy’s fiction is in ceaseless dialog with literary and philosophical culture, reading McCarthy’s funding in influential thinkers from Marcus Aurelius to Hannah Arendt, and poets, playwrights, and novelists from Dante and Shakespeare to Fyodor Dostoevsky and Antonio Machado. The publication exhibits how McCarthy’s fiction grapples with abiding ethical and metaphysical concerns: the character and challenge of evil; the assumption of God or the transcendent; the credibility of heroism within the sleek age; the query of ethical selection and motion; the potential for religion, wish, love, and goodness; the which means and boundaries of civilization; and the definition of what it truly is to be human. This research will allure alike to readers, academics, and students of Cormac McCarthy.
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