Cormac Mccarthy

A Complexity Theory of Literature

Lydia R. Cooper

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Manchester University Press
06 July 2021

Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literary studies: post-colonial literature; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Series: Contemporary American and Canadian Writers

Combining the fields of evolutionary economics and the humanities, this book examines McCarthy's literary works as a significant case study demonstrating our need to recognise the interrelated complexities of economic policies, environmental crises, and how public policy and rhetoric shapes our value systems. In a world recovering from global economic crisis and poised on the brink of another, studying the methods by which literature interrogates narratives of inevitability around global economic inequality and eco-disaster is ever more relevant.

By: Lydia R. Cooper
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 16mm
ISBN: 9781526148582
ISBN 10: 1526148587
Series: Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 06 July 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1. Cars, Trucks, and Horses. Man in the Age of the Machine 2. War and the Wanderer. Epic Violence, Biblical Morality, and the Rise of Empire in Blood Meridian 3. Professionals. Late Capitalism and the Illegal Drug Trade in No Country for Old Men and The Counselor 4. Prophets. Imagining the End of the Anthropocene in The Road 5. Pilgrims. Nomadism and the Making and Unmaking of the World in The Border Trilogy 6. Death and the Poet. Suttree and Art that Sustains Index -- .

Lydia R. Cooper is Associate Professor of English at Creighton University

Reviews for Cormac Mccarthy: A Complexity Theory of Literature

'In her foundational study of McCarthy's engagement with complex adaptive systems, Cooper gracefully assimilates historical, economic, environmental, and complexity studies, archival documents, and previous scholarship to explore McCarthy's cultural critique of the intersecting American systems of twentieth- and twenty-first-century economic imperialism, consumer capitalism, and criminal justice, and the disruption of complex ecological systems. Turning from problems to solutions in her later chapters, she shows how McCarthy's works advance an ethic of care for humans, animals, and the environment, and she examines the roles that storytelling and nomadism can play in promoting such an ethic. Wide-ranging and rich in new insights, this book impresses with its confident perception of the overarching values that unify McCarthy's body of work.' Dianne Luce, author of Reading the World: Cormac McCarthy's Tennessee Period -- .