No Place for Home

Spatial Constraint and Character Flight in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy

Jay Ellis (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

366 Seiten

2006
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-97734-0 (ISBN)

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This book was written to venture beyond interpretations of Cormac McCarthy's characters as simple, antinomian, and non-psychological; and of his landscapes as unrelated to the violent arcs of often orphaned and always emotionally isolated and socially detached characters. As McCarthy usually eschews direct indications of psychology, his landscapes allow us to infer much about their motivations. The relationship of ambivalent nostalgia for domesticity to McCarthy's descriptions of space remains relatively unexamined at book length, and through less theoretical application than close reading. By including McCarthy's latest book, this study offer the only complete study of all nine novels. Within McCarthy studies, this book extends and complicates a growing interest in space and domesticity in his work. The author combines a high regard for McCarthy's stylistic prowess with a provocative reading of how his own psychological habits around gender issues and family relations power books that only appear to be stories of masculine heroics, expressions of misogynistic fear, or antinomian rejections of civilized life.

Jay Ellis

Chapter 1 Spatial Constraint and Character Flight in McCarthy; Chapter 2 “Fled, banished in death or exile:” Constraint and Flight in The Orchard Keeper; Chapter 3 Unhousing a Child of God; Chapter 4 Sins of the Father, Sins of the Son in Outer Dark, Suttree, and Blood Meridian; Chapter 5 “What happens to country” in Blood Meridian; Chapter 6 From Country to Houses in The Border Trilogy; Chapter 7 Fetish and Collapse in No Country for Old Men; Chapter 8 No Place for Home;

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.8.2006
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Major Literary Authors
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	612 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-415-97734-7 / 0415977347
ISBN-13	978-0-415-97734-0 / 9780415977340
Zustand	Neuware