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03381aam a2200421 i 4500 001 DCBC039AEAE411E387729F9EDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140603010131 008 130906t20142014nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2013030530 020 $a 0415507324 (hardback) 020 $a 9780415507325 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)773023804 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d YDXCP $d HNW $d CDX $d OCLCO $d COO $d PUL $d STF $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3563.C337 $b Z595 2014 082 00 $a 813/.54 $2 23 084 $a REL000000 $a REL000000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Broncano, Manuel, $e author. 245 10 $a Religion in Cormac McCarthy's fiction : $b apocryphal borderlands / $c Manuel Broncano. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Routledge, $c 2014. 300 $a xv, 179 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Routledge studies in contemporary literature 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "This book addresses the religious scope of Cormac McCarthy's fiction, one of the most controversial issues in studies of his work. Current criticism is divided between those who find a theological dimension in his works, and those who reject such an approach on the grounds that the nihilist discourse characteristic of his narrative is incompatible with any religious message. McCarthy's tendencies toward religious themes have become increasingly more acute, revealing that McCarthy has adopted the biblical language and rhetoric to compose an "apocryphal" narrative of the American Southwest while exploring the human innate tendency to evil in the line of Herman Melville and William Faulkner, both literary progenitors of the writer. Broncano argues that this apocryphal narrative is written against the background of the Bible, a peculiar Pentateuch in which Blood Meridian functions as the Book of Genesis, the Border Trilogy functions as the Gospels, and No Country for Old Men as the Book of Revelation, while The Road is the post-apocalyptic sequel. This book analyzes the novels included in what Broncano defines as the South-Western cycle (from Blood Meridian to The Road) in search of the religious foundations that support the narrative architecture of the texts." -- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a Introduction: Cormac McCarthy's Religious Enigma -- The World as a Tale: Preliminary Considerations in Theory -- Genesis of a Cursed Territory: Blood Meridian -- Cicatrices and Wounds on the Skin of History: All the Pretty Horses -- Of Knights and Wolves and Witnesses: The Crossing -- The Virgin, the Whore, the Pimp, and the Monk: Cities of the Plain -- The Devil?s Territory Revisited: No Country for Old Men -- Grocery Shopping in the Commissary of Hell: The Road -- Epilogue: The Tale of a World that Was. 600 10 $a McCarthy, Cormac, $d 1933- $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a McCarthy, Cormac, $d 1933- $x Religion. 630 00 $a Bible $x In literature. 650 0 $a Theology in literature. 650 0 $a Nihilism in literature. 650 0 $a Good and evil in literature. 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a RELIGION / General. $2 bisacsh 830 0 $a Routledge studies in contemporary literature. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231020021550.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DCBC039AEAE411E387729F9EDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search