Science and Literature in Cormac McCarthy’s Expanding Worlds
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-5013-8377-9 (ISBN)
Drawing from previously unsurfaced archival connections as well as a range of primary sources and interview subjects, including those close to McCarthy, Giemza places McCarthy’s work within contemporary scientific discourse and literary criticism. Timely and innovative in both content and structure, the volume includes a biographical examination of the writer's love of science and the path that led him to the Santa Fe Institute and offers a rare look behind its closed doors.
The book probes the STEM subjects – with chapters focused on technology, engineering, and math – within and throughout McCarthy’s fictional universe and biography. The final chapter explores McCarthy’s friendship with Guy Davenport and their shared interest in creating a unified aesthetic theory alongside McCarthy’s essays and most recent literary projects, The Passenger and Stella Maris. In arguing that science and art are connected by aesthetics, Giemza confirms the profound truth of McCarthy’s unwavering belief that "There’s a beauty to science" and a language of human understanding that transcends words.
Bryan A. Giemza is Associate Professor of Humanities and Literature at Texas Tech University, USA. He is author or editor of six books, including Irish Catholic Writers and the Invention of the American South (2013), winner of the 2014 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Studies Award, and Images of Depression-Era Louisiana: The FSA Photographs of Ben Shahn, Russell Lee, and Marion Post Wolcott (2017; with Maria Hebert Leiter).
List of Figures
1. Introduction: The Trail to Santa Fe and to the Stars (and Why It’s Good Craic)
Science
2. Starting from a Unified Place: How Chirality and Handedness Inform McCarthy’s Universe
Technology
3. Blowing Up Knoxville: How Domestic Terrorism and Actual Misadventures with Dynamite Shaped McCarthy's World
Engineering and the Built Environment
4. Hypanthropic Times: How the Tennessee Valley Authority Sculpted the Mountains, Drifted the McCarthy Family, and Flooded Cormac’s Imagination
Math
5. Unified Minds and Fractured Minds: Toward No Probable Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.05.2023 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 20 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 232 mm |
| Gewicht | 420 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Naturwissenschaften | |
| Technik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5013-8377-9 / 1501383779 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5013-8377-9 / 9781501383779 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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