Styles of extinction Cormac McCarthy's The road - Murphet, Julian; Steven, Mark 1987- (Continuum, 2012)
The Politics and Aesthetics of Cormac McCarthy's The Road brings together several leading literary scholars, one major philosopher, as well as a handful of emerging critical voices, all of whom deploy their own specialist methods in order to think through this bestselling, Zeitgeist-defining event of contemporary literature. There are two dominant modes of analysis gathered here: the first, performed by Julian Murphet, Paul Sheehan, and Mark Steven, is to locate the novel within its political, spiritual, and economic climates; the second, whose exponents include Paul Patton, Sean Pryor, Chris
The cold illucid world : the poetics of gray in Cormac McCarthy's The road / Chris Danta -- McCarthy's rhythm / Sean Pryor -- Spring has lost its scent : allegory, ruination, and suicidal melancholia in The road / Grace Hellyer -- The late world of Cormac McCarthy / Mark Steven -- Road, fire, trees : Cormac McCarthy's post-America / Paul Sheehan -- The cave and the road : styles of forgotten dreams / Julian Murphet -- McCarthy's fire / Paul Patton
Includes bibliographical references and index