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Shreds of Matter : Cormac Mccarthy and the Concept of Nature by Julius Greve (2018, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherDartmouth College
ISBN-101512603392
ISBN-139781512603392
eBay Product ID (ePID)26038382425
Product Key Features
Number of Pages360 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameShreds of Matter : Cormac Mccarthy and the Concept of Nature
SubjectSubjects & Themes / Nature, American / General
Publication Year2018
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
AuthorJulius Greve
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.1 in
Item Weight22.3 Oz
Item Length0.9 in
Item Width0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2018-039430
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal813.54
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments * List of Abbreviations * Introduction: Cormac McCarthy's Concept of Nature * "Trailing the Cord": Literary Descent and the Ethos of Ecology * "Shreds of Matter": Physiocentrism and Transnational Speculation * "Cloaca Maxima": Ontological Decay, or the Decomposition of Nature * "Another Kind of Clay": Physiophilosophy and War * "Malignant Life": Indifference, Identity, and Narrative Extainment * "The Ashes of Its Ruin": Writing Nature between Orphism and Prometheanism * Conclusion: Naturphilosophie and the Literature of Nature * Notes * Bibliography * Index
SynopsisShreds of Matter: Cormac McCarthy and the Concept of Nature offers a nuanced and innovative take on McCarthy's ostensible localism and, along with it, the ecocentric perspective on the world that is assumed by most critics. In opposing the standard interpretations of McCarthy's novels as critical either of persisting American ideologies--such as manifest destiny and imperialism--or of the ways in which humanity has laid waste to planet Earth, Greve instead emphasizes the author's interest both in the history of science and in the mythographical developments of religious discourse. Greve aims to counter traditional interpretations of McCarthy's work and at the same time acknowledge their partial truth, taking into account the work of Friedrich W. J. Schelling and Lorenz Oken, contemporary speculative realism, and Bertrand Westphal's geocriticism. Further, newly discovered archival material sheds light on McCarthy's immersion in the metaphysical question par excellence: What is nature?, Shreds of Matter: Cormac McCarthy and the Concept of Nature offers a nuanced and innovative take on McCarthy's ostensible localism and, along with it, the ecocentric perspective on the world that is assumed by most critics. In opposing the standard interpretations of McCarthy's novels as critical either of persisting American ideologies-such as manifest destiny and imperialism-or of the ways in which humanity has laid waste to planet Earth, Greve instead emphasizes the author's interest both in the history of science and in the mythographical developments of religious discourse. Greve aims to counter traditional interpretations of McCarthy's work and at the same time acknowledge their partial truth, taking into account the work of Friedrich W. J. Schelling and Lorenz Oken, contemporary speculative realism, and Bertrand Westphal's geocriticism. Further, newly discovered archival material sheds light on McCarthy's immersion in the metaphysical question par excellence: What is nature?
LC Classification NumberPS3563.C337Z667 2019
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