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Authority and the Mountaineer in Cormac McCarthy's Appalachia

Author : Gabe Rikard
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786474599
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Authority and the Mountaineer in Cormac McCarthy's Appalachia written by Gabe Rikard and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author uses theories on power, resistance and discipline developed by Michel Foucault to analyze the interactions of mountaineers and the authorities who have attempted to "modernize" them. The book shows how McCarthy manipulates Appalachian images while engaging in a form of archeology of Appalachian constructs. Initially the book explores the interplay of the dominance/resistance duality. Roads provided ways into the mountains for industry and ways out for the mountaineer, cotton mill villages and regional cities served as "disciplined" destinations for Appalachian out-migrants. McCarthy's character Lester Ballard (Child of God) represents the epitome of hillbilly delinquency. The author explains how the iconic image of the mountaineer--a notion cultivated by fiction writers, benevolent organizations, and academics--"othered" the mountain people as deviants. The book ends by considering the ways in which The Road returns to the rhetorical and geographical region of his early work, and how it fits into McCarthy's Appalachian oeuvre.

Authority and the Mountaineer in Cormac McCarthy's Appalachia

Author : Gabe Rikard
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476603472
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Authority and the Mountaineer in Cormac McCarthy's Appalachia written by Gabe Rikard and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author uses theories on power, resistance and discipline developed by Michel Foucault to analyze the interactions of mountaineers and the authorities who have attempted to "modernize" them. The book shows how McCarthy manipulates Appalachian images while engaging in a form of archeology of Appalachian constructs. Initially the book explores the interplay of the dominance/resistance duality. Roads provided ways into the mountains for industry and ways out for the mountaineer, cotton mill villages and regional cities served as "disciplined" destinations for Appalachian out-migrants. McCarthy's character Lester Ballard (Child of God) represents the epitome of hillbilly delinquency. The author explains how the iconic image of the mountaineer--a notion cultivated by fiction writers, benevolent organizations, and academics--"othered" the mountain people as deviants. The book ends by considering the ways in which The Road returns to the rhetorical and geographical region of his early work, and how it fits into McCarthy's Appalachian oeuvre.

An Archeology of Appalachia

Author : Gabriel D. Rikard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (468 download)

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Download or read book An Archeology of Appalachia written by Gabriel D. Rikard and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The relationships between entities of authority and Appalachian mountaineers have ever been contentious. Despite a theoretically egalitarian political system, American society maintains social, political, and economic stratification; the "mountaineer" or "hillbilly" inhabitants of the Appalachian region are therein relegated to the lower echelons. A contribution to Appalachian Studies, this project deconstructs the interactions of mountaineers and the authorities who have attempted to "modernize" them. Using Michel Foucault's theories on power, resistance, and discipline, it demonstrates how Cormac McCarthy manipulates Appalachian regional images while simultaneously performing an "archeology" of Appalachian sociocultural constructs. Stereotypes of the mountain people are often exaggerated or simply untrue, yet they remain vivid in the American popular imagination. Historically, mountaineers have been isolated in the Appalachian region; they have engaged the wider American economy only in limited ways and have impeded "progress" when modernizing industry and the government wanted to extract the region's resources. Foucauldian analysis of historical developments reveals how discipline in the mountains helped to draw the mountaineer into the web of the American economy, society, and culture: roads provided ways into the mountains for industry and ways out for the mountaineer; cotton mill villages and regional cities served as "disciplined" destinations for the mountaineer out-migrants; the iconic image of the mountaineer/hillbilly, a socio-political and historical construction cultivated and maintained by fiction writers, benevolence organizations, and academics, "othered" the mountain people as deviants and delinquents. The subsequent convolution of the Appalachian region and Appalachia --yet another rhetorical construction--places the mountain folk in positions of alterity relative to mainstream American society. Authority, can thereby compartmentalize, categorize, and stigmatize a segment of the population who otherwise appears no different from the majority of the American people. Cormac McCarthy, in The Orchard Keeper, Outer Dark, Child of God, Suttree, The Gardener's Son, and The Road, shows various conflicts between authority and the mountaineer. This Foucauldian analysis of his Appalachian writings exposes the workings of power within the Appalachian region, revealing how mountaineers have been disciplined via roads, regional migration destinations, deviance and delinquency, and the still-popular Appalachian iconography.

Sacred Violence: Cormac McCarthy's appalachian works

Author : Wade Hall
Publisher : Texas Western Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Violence: Cormac McCarthy's appalachian works written by Wade Hall and published by Texas Western Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cormac McCarthy

Author : K. Lincoln
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230617840
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Cormac McCarthy written by K. Lincoln and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-12-22 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a guide to Cormac McCarthy's canon from The Road to All the Pretty Horses, delving into the dominant themes in his work, his influences from Faulkner to Dante, and the current cultural debates his books have figured into.

Dissertation Abstracts International

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The United States of Appalachia

Author : Jeff Biggers
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 158243994X
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book The United States of Appalachia written by Jeff Biggers and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2007-03-10 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few places in the United States confound and fascinate Americans like Appalachia, yet no other area has been so markedly mischaracterized by the mass media. Stereotypes of hillbillies and rednecks repeatedly appear in representations of the region, but few, if any, of its many heroes, visionaries, or innovators are ever referenced. Make no mistake, they are legion: from Anne Royall, America's first female muckraker, to Sequoyah, a Cherokee mountaineer who invented the first syllabary in modern times, and international divas Nina Simone and Bessie Smith, as well as writers Cormac McCarthy, Edward Abbey, and Nobel Laureate Pearl S. Buck, Appalachia has contributed mightily to American culture — and politics. Not only did eastern Tennessee boast the country's first antislavery newspaper, Appalachians also established the first District of Washington as a bold counterpoint to British rule. With humor, intelligence, and clarity, Jeff Biggers reminds us how Appalachians have defined and shaped the United States we know today.

Appalachian Journal

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Appalachian Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A regional studies review.

The Cratis Williams Symposium Proceedings

Author : Barry M. Buxton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Cratis Williams Symposium Proceedings written by Barry M. Buxton and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Appalachian Portraits

Author : Lee Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Appalachian Portraits written by Lee Smith and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Landscape Of Desire

Author : Greg Gordon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Landscape Of Desire written by Greg Gordon and published by . This book was released on 2003-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each chapter focuses on a geological formation the group descends through, but plant and animal life, ecology, human impacts, and the students' experience and learning are all tightly woven into Gordon's reflections and storytelling, which create a powerful documentation and celebration of place and the evolutions that occur when human beings connect intimately to their surroundings."--BOOK JACKET.

Understanding Cormac McCarthy

Author : Steven Frye
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611172047
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Cormac McCarthy written by Steven Frye and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A roadmap to the dark and mythic topography of McCarthy's fiction Named by Harold Bloom as one of the most significant American novelists of our time, Cormac McCarthy has been honored with the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for All the Pretty Horses, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for The Road, and the coveted MacArthur Fellowship. Steven Frye offers a comprehensive treatment of McCarthy's fiction to date, dealing with the author's aesthetic and thematic concerns, his philosophical and religious influences, and his participation in Western literary traditions. Frye provides extensive readings of each novel, charting the trajectory of McCarthy's development as a writer who invigorates literary culture both past and present through a blend of participation, influence, and aesthetic transformation. Understanding Cormac McCarthy explores the early works of the Tennessee period in the context of the "romance" genre, the southern gothic and grotesque, as well as the carnivalesque. A chapter is devoted to Blood Meridian, a novel that marks McCarthy's transition to the West and his full recognition as a major force in American letters. In the final two chapters, Frye explores McCarthy's Border Trilogy and his later works— specifically No Country for Old Men and The Road—addressing the manner in which McCarthy's preoccupation with violence and human depravity exists alongside a perpetual search for meaning, purpose, and value. Frye provides scholars, students, and general readers alike with a clearly argued foundational examination of McCarthy's novels in their historical and literary contexts as an ideal roadmap illuminating the author's work as it charts the dark and mythic topography of the American frontier.

The Achievement of Cormac McCarthy

Author : Vereen M. Bell
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807181315
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Achievement of Cormac McCarthy written by Vereen M. Bell and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2023-10-18 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now back in print, Vereen M. Bell's The Achievement of Cormac McCarthy was the first critical book devoted to an author who would become one of the most celebrated American writers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. Published in 1988, before McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and had his novels adapted into acclaimed films, Bell's study offered the first systematic review of the author's work. According to Bell, part of the difficulty of analyzing McCarthy's fiction is that the novelist by design works against all conventional ways of seeing and dealing with the world. Any formulaic readings, particularly those associated with the traditional schemes of southern literature, will be distorted. McCarthy's novels are provocatively mysterious yet specific and vivid as well. They are also freestanding and unclassifiable Bell shows how McCarthy transforms the world through language, how he reconstitutes both urban and rural settings so that otherwise barely articulate and unheroic people live vividly in a context that is both modernist and antimodernist. In this respect, Bell argues, McCarthy's work is about the tension between visions of the world and the intractable, opposing materiality of it, between the mysteriousness of an individual's private engagement with experience and social normality's tendency to flatten it out. At the same time, Bell shows McCarthy's infatuation with the reality of evil, how the evil in human form in his novels is as inexplicably gratuitous and violent as the inhuman form of random and destructive natural events. Such violence, for McCarthy, is built into existence and cannot be evaded or rationalized away. With detailed readings of McCarthy's first five novels—The Orchard Keeper, Child of God, Outer Dark, Suttree, and Blood Meridian—Bell demonstrates the novelist's faith in the protean capacity of language to disclose the layered possibilities and richness of being. Widely cited by scholars, Bell's book established many of the foundational critical frameworks for approaching McCarthy's work. It is now available in an affordable paperback edition.

Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy

Author : Edwin T. Arnold
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781604736502
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy written by Edwin T. Arnold and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cormac McCarthy's first novel, The Orchard Keeper, won the William Faulkner Award. His other books - Outer Dark, Child of God, Suttree, and Blood Meridian - have drawn a cult readership and the praise of such writers as Annie Dillard and Shelby Foote. "There are so many people out there who seem to have a hunger to know more about McCarthy's work," says McCarthy scholar Vereen Bell. Helping to satisfy such a need, this collection of essays, one of the few critical studies of Cormac McCarthy, introduces his work and lays the groundwork for study of an important but underrecognized American novelist, winner in 1992 of the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for All the Pretty Horses. The essays explore McCarthy's historical and philosophical sources, grapple with the difficult task of identifying the moral center in his works, and identify continuities in his fiction. Included too is a bibliography of works by and about him. As they reflect critical perspectives on the works of this eminent writer, these essays afford a pleasing introduction to all his novels and his screenplay, "The Gardener's Son."

Cormac McCarthy

Author : Erik Hage
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786455594
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Cormac McCarthy written by Erik Hage and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cormac McCarthy, the author of such works as Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, and The Road, is one of America's greatest living writers--an uncompromising examiner of the depths of human depravity, the nature of evil, and the bonds that endure. This companion is intended for both the scholar and lay reader seeking a comprehensive understanding of McCarthy's body of work. Alphabetically ordered entries offer analysis of novels, characters, motifs, allusions, plays, and themes, as well as commentary on events, people and places related to McCarthy scholarship. Most entries include a selected bibliography for further reading. A biographical introduction provides information on the life of this reclusive author, and discussion topics are provided as an aid for instructors.

Trace

Author : Lauret Savoy
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619026686
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Trace written by Lauret Savoy and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a New Preface by the Author Through personal journeys and historical inquiry, this PEN Literary Award finalist explores how America’s still unfolding history and ideas of “race” have marked its people and the land. Sand and stone are Earth’s fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. One life–defining lesson Lauret Savoy learned as a young girl was this: the American land did not hate. As an educator and Earth historian, she has tracked the continent’s past from the relics of deep time; but the paths of ancestors toward her—paths of free and enslaved Africans, colonists from Europe, and peoples indigenous to this land—lie largely eroded and lost. A provocative and powerful mosaic that ranges across a continent and across time, from twisted terrain within the San Andreas Fault zone to a South Carolina plantation, from national parks to burial grounds, from “Indian Territory” and the U.S.–Mexico Border to the U.S. capital, Trace grapples with a searing national history to reveal the often unvoiced presence of the past. In distinctive and illuminating prose that is attentive to the rhythms of language and landscapes, she weaves together human stories of migration, silence, and displacement, as epic as the continent they survey, with uplifted mountains, braided streams, and eroded canyons. Gifted with this manifold vision, and graced by a scientific and lyrical diligence, she delves through fragmented histories—natural, personal, cultural—to find shadowy outlines of other stories of place in America. "Every landscape is an accumulation," reads one epigraph. "Life must be lived amidst that which was made before." Courageously and masterfully, Lauret Savoy does so in this beautiful book: she lives there, making sense of this land and its troubled past, reconciling what it means to inhabit terrains of memory—and to be one.

Reading the World

Author : Dianne C. Luce
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570038242
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Reading the World written by Dianne C. Luce and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Reading the World Dianne C. Luce explores the historical and philosophical contexts of Cormac McCarthy's early works crafted during his Tennessee period from 1959 to 1979 to demonstrate how McCarthy integrates literary realism with the imagery and myths of Platonic, gnostic, and existentialist philosophies to create his unique vision of the world. Luce begins with a substantial treatment of the east Tennessee context from which McCarthy's fiction emerges, sketching an Appalachian culture and environment in flux. Against this backdrop Luce examines, novel by novel, McCarthy's distinctive rendering of character through mixed narrative techniques of flashbacks, shifts in vantage point, and dream sequences. Luce shows how McCarthy's fragmented narration and lyrical style combine to create a rich portrayal of the philosophical and religious elements at play in human consciousness as it confronts a world rife with isolation and violence.