Name: Tangential Terrains. Cormac McCarthy's Geoaesthetics
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Author: Stefanie Heine

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Tangential Terrains. Cormac McCarthy's Geoaesthetics

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

University of Nevada Press

Autor

Stefanie Heine

Colección

Western Literature and Fiction Series

Año

2026

N° páginas

280

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.9x15.2x1.3 cm

ISBN13

9781647792312

Tangential Terrains. Cormac McCarthy's Geoaesthetics

Stefanie Heine (Autor) · University of Nevada Press · Tapa Blanda

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Tangential Terrains is an ecocritical study of the work of Cormac McCarthy, focusing primarily on his depictions of the desert and inorganic nature in Blood 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. Blood Meridian's emergent geoaesthetics reveals forces operating according to other-than-human principles, as literary desert terrains retain a passive resistance, or weak agency, which presents a radical disturbance of anthropocentrism, mirrored in the novel's style. Though the mediated unstable deserts in Blood Meridian defy appropriation, they are neither untouched nor untouchable: the borderlands bear the wounds and "blood meridians" of a non-chronological history of violence, tangential to the massacres of Native American and Mexican peoples depicted in the novel. Stefanie Heine's reading of Blood Meridian offers a crucial contribution to and intervention in contemporary ecocriticism, Anthropocene criticism, and New Materialist theories, encouraging readers to critically rethink customary notions of entanglement, kinship, and agency.