Morality in Cormac McCarthy's Fiction: Souls at Hazard

Author:   Russell M. Hillier
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2017
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9783319469560


Pages:   317
Publication Date:   08 March 2017
Format:   Hardback
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This book argues that McCarthy’s works convey a profound moral vision, and use intertextuality, moral philosophy, and questions of genre to advance that vision. It focuses upon the ways in which McCarthy’s fiction is in ceaseless conversation with literary and philosophical tradition, examining McCarthy’s investment in influential thinkers from Marcus Aurelius to Hannah Arendt, and poets, playwrights, and novelists from Dante and Shakespeare to Fyodor Dostoevsky and Antonio Machado. The book shows how McCarthy’s fiction grapples with abiding moral and metaphysical issues: the nature and problem of evil; the idea of God or the transcendent; the credibility of heroism in the modern age; the question of moral choice and action; the possibility of faith, hope, love, and goodness; the meaning and limits of civilization; and the definition of what it is to be human. This study will appeal alike to readers, teachers, and scholars of Cormac McCarthy.  

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Author:   Russell M. Hillier
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2017
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   5.257kg
ISBN:  

9783319469560


ISBN 10:   3319469568
Pages:   317
Publication Date:   08 March 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1.- Introduction.- Chapter 2. “Give the Devil His Due”: Judge Holden’s Design in Blood Meridian.- Chapter 3. “Antic Clay”?: The Competing Ethical Appeals of Blood Meridian.- Chapter 4. “A Knowing Deep in the Bone”: Cowboy Stoicism and Tragic Heroism in All the Pretty Horses.- Chapter 5. “Like Some Supplicant to the Darkness Over Them All”: The Good of John Grady Cole in Cities of the Plain.- Chapter 6. “Nothing is Crueler Than a Coward”: No Country for Old Men and The Counselor as Tragic Fables of the Contemporary Southwest.- Chapter 7. Coda — The Good of Story in The Road.- Bibliography.- Index.

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This book reads easily, as it should, and is therefore recommended not only to graduate students and scholars but to advanced undergraduates. ... The overall structure of each chapter, and how the chapters produce the larger argument, generally present yet another admirable quality of this book. (Jay Ellis, The Cormac McCarthy Journal, Vol. 16 (2), 2018)


“Hillier focuses on examining one aspect of McCarthy’s moral vision in each chapter, the result of which is a book that is well organized around this central theme. Hillier includes quotations from McCarthy’s novels in his chapter titles, each of which fittingly summarizes the moral concerns in the narratives. His scholarship, which is rooted in the Western literary and intellectual tradition, in combination with his nuanced textual readings and his unearthing of frequently overlooked textual clues makes his argument insightful and compelling.” (Aihua Chen, Soundings, Vol. 101 (04), 2018) “This book reads easily, as it should, and is therefore recommended not only to graduate students and scholars but toadvanced undergraduates. … The overall structure of each chapter, and how the chapters produce the larger argument, generally present yet another admirable quality of this book.” (Jay Ellis, The Cormac McCarthy Journal, Vol. 16 (2), 2018)


“Hillier focuses on examining one aspect of McCarthy’s moral vision in each chapter, the result of which is a book that is well organized around this central theme. Hillier includes quotations from McCarthy’s novels in his chapter titles, each of which fittingly summarizes the moral concerns in the narratives. His scholarship, which is rooted in the Western literary and intellectual tradition, in combination with his nuanced textual readings and his unearthing of frequently overlooked textual clues makes his argument insightful and compelling.” (Aihua Chen, Soundings, Vol. 101 (04), 2018) “This book reads easily, as it should, and is therefore recommended not only to graduate students and scholars but to advanced undergraduates. … The overall structure of each chapter, and how the chapters produce the larger argument, generally present yet another admirable quality of this book.” (Jay Ellis, The Cormac McCarthy Journal, Vol. 16 (2), 2018)


Hillier focuses on examining one aspect of McCarthy's moral vision in each chapter, the result of which is a book that is well organized around this central theme. Hillier includes quotations from McCarthy's novels in his chapter titles, each of which fittingly summarizes the moral concerns in the narratives. His scholarship, which is rooted in the Western literary and intellectual tradition, in combination with his nuanced textual readings and his unearthing of frequently overlooked textual clues makes his argument insightful and compelling. (Aihua Chen, Soundings, Vol. 101 (04), 2018) This book reads easily, as it should, and is therefore recommended not only to graduate students and scholars but to advanced undergraduates. ... The overall structure of each chapter, and how the chapters produce the larger argument, generally present yet another admirable quality of this book. (Jay Ellis, The Cormac McCarthy Journal, Vol. 16 (2), 2018)


Author Information

Russell M. Hillier is Associate Professor of English at Providence College, Rhode Island, USA. He is the author of Milton’s Messiah (2011) and has published numerous scholarly articles on William Shakespeare, John Milton, John Donne, George Herbert, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Cormac McCarthy.

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