The Achievement of Cormac McCarthy by Vereen M. Bell Paperback Book

Description: The Achievement of Cormac McCarthy by Vereen M. Bell, Scott Romine Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description Now back in print, Vereen M. Bells The Achievement of Cormac McCarthy was the first critical book devoted to an author who would become one of the most celebrated American writers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. Publisher Description Now back in print, Vereen M. Bells The Achievement of Cormac McCarthy was the first critical book devoted to an author who would become one of the most celebrated American writers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. Published in 1988, before McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and had his novels adapted into acclaimed films, Bells study offered the first systematic review of the authors work.According to Bell, part of the difficulty of analyzing McCarthys fiction is that the novelist by design works against all conventional ways of seeing and dealing with the world. Any formulaic readings, particularly those associated with the traditional schemes of southern literature, will be distorted. McCarthys novels are provocatively mysterious yet specific and vivid as well. They are also freestanding and unclassifiableBell shows how McCarthy transforms the world through language, how he reconstitutes both urban and rural settings so that otherwise barely articulate and unheroic people live vividly in a context that is both modernist and antimodernist. In this respect, Bell argues, McCarthys work is about the tension between visions of the world and the intractable, opposing materiality of it, between the mysteriousness of an individuals private engagement with experience and social normalitys tendency to flatten it out. At the same time, Bell shows McCarthys infatuation with the reality of evil, how the evil in human form in his novels is as inexplicably gratuitous and violent as the inhuman form of random and destructive natural events. Such violence, for McCarthy, is built into existence and cannot be evaded or rationalized away.With detailed readings of McCarthys first five novels—The Orchard Keeper, Child of God, Outer Dark, Suttree, and Blood Meridian—Bell demonstrates the novelists faith in the protean capacity of language to disclose the layered possibilities and richness of being. Widely cited by scholars, Bells book established many of the foundational critical frameworks for approaching McCarthys work. It is now available in an affordable paperback edition. Author Biography Before his death in 2021, Vereen M. Bell was a professor of English at Vanderbilt University for almost fifty years. In addition to his groundbreaking book on Cormac McCarthy, he published critical studies of William Butler Yeats and Robert Lowell. Details ISBN 0807180378 ISBN-13 9780807180372 Title The Achievement of Cormac McCarthy Author Vereen M. Bell, Scott Romine Format Paperback Year 2023 Pages 160 Publisher Louisiana State University Press GE_Item_ID:151335529; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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