Cormac McCarthy in Context

Cormac McCarthy in Context places the author's work within a host of influences that serve to illuminate his dense work.

This collection will be useful to scholars, students, and thoughtful readers as they seek to come to terms with one of the most dense and philosophically rich authors in the contemporary canon. To understand him, one must understand a host of ideas and perspectives.Cormac McCarthy is a writer informed by an intense curiosity. His interests range from the natural world, to philosophy and religion, to history and culture. Cormac McCarthy in Context offers readers the opportunity to understand how various influences inform his rich body of work. The collection explores the relationship McCarthy has with his favourite authors, writers such as Herman Melville, William Faulkner, and Ernest Hemingway. Other contexts are tremendously informative, including the American Romance tradition of the nineteenth century as well as modernity and the modernist literary movement. Influence and context are of absolute importance in understanding McCarthy, who is now being understood as one of the most significant authors of the contemporary period.