Religion in Cormac McCarthy's Fiction

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This book addresses the religious scope of Cormac McCarthy's fiction, one of the most controversial issues in studies of his work. Broncano visits McCarthy's apocryphal narrative of the Southwest in search of the religious foundations that support the narrative architecture of the texts, from Blood Meridian to The Road. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword, Rick Wallach Introduction. Cormac McCarthy's Religious Enigma 1. The World as a Tale: Preliminary Considerations in Theory 2. Genesis of a Cursed Territory: Blood Meridian 3. Cicatrices and Wounds on the Skin of History: All the Pretty Horses 4. Of Knights and Wolves and Witnesses: The Crossing 5. The Virgin, the Whore, the Pimp, and the Monk: Cities of the Plain 6. The Devil's Territory Revisited: No Country for Old Men 7. Grocery Shopping in the Commissary of Hell: The Road Epilogue. The Tale of a World that Was