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• catalog abstract "In this astute and learned analysis of McCarthy's fiction, Robert Jarrett looks at all seven of the novels published to date and responds to much of the current (and proliferating) critical thought about McCarthy. After an introductory biographical chapter, Jarrett addresses what he considers the two phases of McCarthy's fiction: as a regional writer of the Appalachian South, whose work mixes modernist and realistic techniques and merges contemporary fiction with the tradition of Southern literature (as in The Orchard Keeper [1965], Outer Dark [1968], Child of God [1973], and Suttree [1979]), and as a bold experimenter in form and style, with a keenly rendered postmodern esthetic (as in Blood Meridian [1985], All the Pretty Horses, and The Crossing [1994]). Jarrett regards McCarthy's early novels as attempts to write a modern fiction of the twentieth-century Tennessee hill country, comparable to what local-color realists or regionalists accomplished in the nineteenth century and to what William Faulkner accomplished in his mixture of modernism and regionalism in his Yoknapatawpha fiction. It is during his second phase, Jarrett points out, that the locales of McCarthy's novels shift to the Southwest, and any appearance they give of being popular westerns becomes only a disguise. In the final chapter Jarrett stresses three distinctive aspects of McCarthy's fiction: the diverse and idiosyncratic style of the narrative discourse, the central theme of the quest undertaken through a visionary landscape, and the role of interpolated tales. Drawing keenly on literary theory to synthesize the various strands of McCarthy's unique narrative voice, Jarrett concludes that while the author's tales -often steeped in violence - may not tell us what we want to hear, the enduring pleasure of his novels lies in their imaginative and stylistic power.".
• catalog contributor b10311881.
• catalog coverage "Mexican-American Border Region In literature.".
• catalog coverage "Southern States In literature.".
• catalog coverage "Tennessee, East In literature.".
• catalog created "c1997.".
• catalog date "1997".
• catalog date "c1997.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
• catalog description "In this astute and learned analysis of McCarthy's fiction, Robert Jarrett looks at all seven of the novels published to date and responds to much of the current (and proliferating) critical thought about McCarthy. After an introductory biographical chapter, Jarrett addresses what he considers the two phases of McCarthy's fiction: as a regional writer of the Appalachian South, whose work mixes modernist and realistic techniques and merges contemporary fiction with the tradition of Southern literature (as in The Orchard Keeper [1965], Outer Dark [1968], Child of God [1973], and Suttree [1979]), and as a bold experimenter in form and style, with a keenly rendered postmodern esthetic (as in Blood Meridian [1985], All the Pretty Horses, and The Crossing [1994]). Jarrett regards McCarthy's early novels as attempts to write a modern fiction of the twentieth-century Tennessee hill country, comparable to what local-color realists or regionalists accomplished in the nineteenth century and to what William Faulkner accomplished in his mixture of modernism and regionalism in his Yoknapatawpha fiction. It is during his second phase, Jarrett points out, that the locales of McCarthy's novels shift to the Southwest, and any appearance they give of being popular westerns becomes only a disguise. In the final chapter Jarrett stresses three distinctive aspects of McCarthy's fiction: the diverse and idiosyncratic style of the narrative discourse, the central theme of the quest undertaken through a visionary landscape, and the role of interpolated tales. Drawing keenly on literary theory to synthesize the various strands of McCarthy's unique narrative voice, Jarrett concludes that while the author's tales -often steeped in violence - may not tell us what we want to hear, the enduring pleasure of his novels lies in their imaginative and stylistic power.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "The shape of a career -- New beginnings for Southern fiction: The orchard keeper and Outer dark -- Postmodern outcasts and alienation: Child of God and Suttree -- Rewriting the Southwest: Blood meridian as a revisionary western -- The border trilogy: individualism, history, and cultural crossings -- The rhetoric of McCarthy's fiction: style, visionary landscapes, and parables.".
• catalog extent "xiv, 175 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Cormac McCarthy.".
• catalog identifier "080574567X (alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Cormac McCarthy.".
• catalog isPartOf "Twayne's United States authors series ; TUSAS 679".
• catalog issued "1997".
• catalog issued "c1997.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Twayne Publishers ; London : Prentice Hall International,".
• catalog relation "Cormac McCarthy.".
• catalog spatial "Mexican-American Border Region In literature.".
• catalog spatial "Southern States In literature.".
• catalog spatial "Tennessee, East In literature.".
• catalog subject "813/.54 21".
• catalog subject "McCarthy, Cormac, 1933- Criticism and interpretation.".
• catalog subject "PS3563.C337 Z74 1997".
• catalog tableOfContents "The shape of a career -- New beginnings for Southern fiction: The orchard keeper and Outer dark -- Postmodern outcasts and alienation: Child of God and Suttree -- Rewriting the Southwest: Blood meridian as a revisionary western -- The border trilogy: individualism, history, and cultural crossings -- The rhetoric of McCarthy's fiction: style, visionary landscapes, and parables.".
• catalog title "Cormac McCarthy / Robert L. Jarrett.".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "text".