The Late Modernism of Cormac McCarthy

by David Holloway and Rick Wallach

Through close examination of the formal as well as thematic organization of Cormac McCarthy's eight novels, this volume offers a radically new assessment of the work of an author who has often been described as one of the greatest contemporary American novelists. In opposition to existing McCarthy scholarship--which tends to concentrate on the regional dimensions of his work, viewing it within the literary and mythopoetic traditions of the South and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313322279
• ISBN13: 9780313322273
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 10.0"