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Named Person: | Cormac McCarthy; Cormac MacCarthy; Cormac McCarthy |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Harold Bloom |
ISBN: | 9781617530029 1617530026 |
OCLC Number: | 679924684 |
Description: | 148 pages ; 22 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction -- Biographical sketch -- The story behind the story -- List of characters -- Summary and analysis -- Critical views: Todd Shy on The road, The book of Job, and questions about evil -- Thomas A. Carlson on McCarthy's existential themes -- Carl James Grindley on the novel's setting -- Alex Hunt and Martin M. Jacobsen on the image of the sun -- Barbara Bennett on the image of fire and references to Yeats's poetry -- Shelly Rambo on the theme of redemption -- Ashley Kunsa on style in The road -- Thomas H. Schaub on allusion, style, and the theme of storytelling -- John Jurgensen on the backstory to The road -- Rune Graulund on the desert setting -- Works by Cormac McCarthy -- Annotated bibliography -- Contributors. |
Series Title: | Bloom's guides. |
Other Titles: | Road |
Responsibility: | edited & with an introduction by Harold Bloom. |
Abstract:
Cormac McCarthy's jarring, dystopic vision of a father and son's fraught journey to an unknown destination earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2007. In this new volume, critical excerpts explore this contemporary classic, and features include an annotated bibliography, an index, a list of characters from the work, and extensive summary and analysis.
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- McCarthy, Cormac, -- 1933- -- Road.
- Fathers and sons in literature.
- Good and evil in literature.
- Apocalypse in literature.
- Regression (Civilization) in literature.
- Survival in literature.
- Redemption in literature.
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- Fin du monde dans la littérature.
- Décadence dans la littérature.
- Survie dans la littérature.
- Rédemption dans la littérature.
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- Father-son relationship in literature.
- Apocalyptic fiction -- History and criticism.
- Civilization in literature.
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