The Evil, the Fated, the Biblical: The Latent Metaphysics of Cormac Mccarthy - Couverture rigide

Boguta-Marchel, Hanna

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ISBN 10 : 1443838829 ISBN 13 : 9781443838825

Editeur : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The most intriguing aspect of Cormac McCarthy's writing is the irresistible premonition that his sentences carry an exceptional potential, that after each subsequent reading they surprise us with increasingly deeper layers of meaning, which are often in complete contradiction to the readers' initial intuitions. His novels belong to the kind that we dream about at night, that follow us and do not let themselves be forgotten. Cormac McCarthy's prose has been read in the light of a variety of theories, ranging from Marxist criticism, the pastoral tradition, Gnostic theology, the revisionist approach to the American Western, to feminist and eco-critical methodology. The perspective offered in The Evil, the Fated, the Biblical is an existentialist theological approach, which proposes a reading of McCarthy that focuses on the issue of evil and violence as it is dealt with in his novels. Evil, unquestionably being a metaphysical category and, as a result, quite commonly pronounced passe, is a challenging and overwhelming topic, which nevertheless deeply concerns all of us. Boguta-Marchel's book is therefore an attempt to confront a theme that is an unpopular object of scholarly examination and, at the same time, a commonly shared experience in the everyday life of all human beings. The problem of evil is. Evil is obviously a metaphysical category, and, therefore, quite. It tends to be not only relativized and viewed as utterly subjective, but also otherwise termed and defined solely through its specifically contextualized (i.e. practical) manifestations. This is the first and most fundamental impediment one stumbles upon when attempting to theorize about evil. And yet the experience of evil as something external, a reality existing outside and, to some extent, despite the individual, is quite commonplace and familiar. Such an experience is, obviously, by definition subjective, though in itself it does render evil's very existence as, in a sense, objective.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Hanna Boguta-Marchel A philologist, psychologist, and mediator. In 2003 she received an MA in the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw and in 2004 - an MA at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw. She completed her PhD on the literature of Cormac McCarthy at the University of Warsaw in 2009. Presently, she teaches practical English and psychology at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw and works as a mediator in family and civil conflicts. Chosen publications: Violence against the Ethnically Other: The Subversiveness of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. Ed. Bozenna Chylinska. Ideology and Rhetoric: Constructing America. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. The Actual and Virtual Identity of Cormac McCarthy: A Case Study. Grzegorz Kosc and Krzysztof Majer, eds. Tools of Their Tools: Communications Technologies and American Cultural Practice. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. See' the Book: Adapting the Prose of Cormac McCarthy for the Screen. John R. Leo and Marek Paryz, eds. Projecting Words, Writing Images: Intersections of the Textual and the Visual in American Cultural Practices. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. 'Memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not': Some Reflections on the Repetitiveness and Originality of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. Wojciech Kalaga, Marzena Kubisz, and Jacek Mydla, eds. A Culture of Recycling / Recycling Culture? Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2011.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1443838829
• ISBN 13: 9781443838825
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 215