Tangential Terrains by Stefanie Heine - 9781647792312

Name: Tangential Terrains by Stefanie Heine - 9781647792312
Brand: University of Nevada Press

University of Nevada Press

Tangential TerrainsCormac McCarthy's Geoaesthetics\nAuthor(s): Stefanie Heine\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Nevada Press, United States\nImprint: University of Nevada Press\nISBN-13: 9781647792312, 978-1647792312\nSynopsis\nTangential Terrainsis an ecocritical study of the work of Cormac McCarthy, focusing primarily on his depictions of the desert and inorganic nature inBlood Meridian. Close readings of previously unexamined archival manuscripts and drafts shed new light on McCarthy's compositional processes, revealing how the development of written matter in the novel-in-progress can correspond to geological processes like erosion, erratics, stratification, and continental drift.\n Blood Meridian's emergent geoaesthetics reveals forces operating according to other-than-human principles, as literary desert terrains retain a passive resistance, orweak agency, which presents a radical disturbance of anthropocentrism, mirrored in the novel's style. Though the mediated uns.