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02790aam a2200421 i 4500 001 4E76CF142E0111EFA856D47D28ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240619010048 008 230509s2024 miu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2023021733 020 $a 1611864828 020 $a 9781611864823 035 $a (OCoLC)1384451507 040 $a LBSOR $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCL $d YDX $d OCLCO $d BDX $d YDX $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3563.C337 $b Z95 2024 082 00 $a 813/.54 $2 23/eng/20230620 100 1 $a Wierschem, Markus, $e author. 245 10 $a Cormac McCarthy : $b an American apocalypse / $c Markus Wierschem. 264 1 $a East Lansing : $b Michigan State University Press, $c [2024] 300 $a xxxii, 493 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture 520 $a "This assessment of Cormac McCarthy's novels captures the interactions among the literary and mythic elements, the social dynamics of violence, and the natural world in The Orchard Keeper, Child of God, Outer Dark, Blood Meridian, and The Road. Drawing on ReneÌ Girard's mimetic theory, mythography, thermodynamic entropy, and information science, scholar Markus Wierschem identifies a literary apocalypse at the center of McCarthy's work, one that unveils another buried deep within the history, religion, and myths of American and Western culture"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Prolegomena : sanguinary signifiers -- Sanguinary signifiers : the dis|orderly language of myth, violence, and entropy -- Dissolved in a pale and broken image : Pastoralism, mimesis, and dis|order in The orchard keeper -- Order in the woods and in men's souls : gothic psychomythology and scapegoating in Child of God -- A sense of judgment: myth, christianity, and cosmic disorder in Outer dark -- Degeneration through violence : the apocalyptic logic of Blood meridian -- An apocalyptic journey : revelation, conversion and the different ends of The Road. 600 10 $a McCarthy, Cormac, $d 1933-2023 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 17 $a McCarthy, Cormac, $d 1933-2023 $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00088064 648 7 $a 1900-2099 $2 fast 650 0 $a Apocalypse in literature. 650 0 $a American fiction $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American fiction $y 21st century $x History and criticism. 650 7 $a American fiction $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807048 650 7 $a Apocalypse in literature $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01896027 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 830 0 $a Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240619011052.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4E76CF142E0111EFA856D47D28ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search