Cormac McCarthy: A complexity theory of literature

Lydia R. Cooper

doi:10.7765/9781526148599

Cormac McCarthy: a complexity theory of literature examines McCarthy’s works as a case study demonstrating how literary texts can make chaotic and complex systems imaginable. This book offers the first sustained analysis of McCarthy’s literary engagement with complex systems, from food webs to evolutionary economics. Focusing on McCarthy’s depiction of the role of economics and art on global inequality and eco-disaster, it argues that McCarthy’s works offer a case study in the role of literature in challenging us to imagine the consequences of our world’s unmaking, and to recognize what creativity and ethos is needed to make it again in the ‘very maelstrom of its undoing.’

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Front matter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Series editors’ foreword
pp vi-vii

Acknowledgments
pp viii-x

List of abbreviations
pp xi-xii

Introduction
pp 1-32

1 - Cars, trucks, and horses: Man in the age of themachine
pp 33-68

2 - War and the wanderer: The rise of empire in BloodMeridian
pp 69-99

3 - Professionals: Late capitalism and the illegal drugtrade in No Country for Old Men and and TheCounselor
pp 100-131

4 - Prophets: Imagining the end of the Anthropocene inThe Road
pp 132-157

5 - Pilgrims: Nomadism and the making and unmaking ofthe world in the Border Trilogy
pp 158-189

6 - Death and the poet: Suttree and art that sustainsand art that sustains
pp 190-212

Epilogue
pp 213-216

Bibliography
pp 217-230

Index
pp 231-236

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