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Author Cant, John, 1937-

Title Cormac McCarthy and the myth of American exceptionalism / John Cant.

Imprint New York : Routledge, 2008.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 368 pages)
Series Studies in major literary authors
Studies in major literary authors (Unnumbered)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-345) and index.
"Supplementary bibliography": page 281.
Contents Introduction -- Personal and literary biography -- Tennessee background -- Wake for Susan and A Drowning Incident -- The orchard keeper -- Outer dark -- Child of God -- Suttree -- The stonemason -- The gardener's son -- Blood meridian -- All the pretty horses -- The crossing -- Cities of the plain -- No country for old men -- Conclusion.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
Summary This overview of McCarthy's published work to date, including: the short stories he published as a student, his novels, stage play and TV film script, locates him as a icocolastic writer, engaged in deconstructing America's vision of itself as a nation with an exceptionalist role in the world. Introductory chapters outline his personal background and the influences on his early years in Tennessee whilst each of his works is dealt with in a separate chapter listed in chronological order of publication.
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Subject McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023 -- Criticism and interpretation.
McCarthy, Cormac, 1933- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJbH4ckwwT9hVRdjhCm68C
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Exceptionalism -- United States.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Exceptionalism
National characteristics, American, in literature
United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Cant, John, 1937- Cormac McCarthy and the myth of American exceptionalism. New York : Routledge, 2008 (DLC) 2007023587 (OCoLC)141854106
ISBN 9781136094989 (electronic bk.)
1136094989 (electronic bk.)
9780203036310 (e-book)
020303631X (e-book)
9781136095061 (e-book ; ePub)
1136095063
9781136095146 (e-book ; Mobi)
1136095144
0415875676
9780415875677
0415981425
9780415981422
9780415875677 (paperback)
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