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All the Pretty Horses
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Blood Meridian
Border Trilogy
Buddhism
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Cities of the Plain
Cormac McCarthy
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Gnosticism
metaphysics
mysticism
No Country for Old Men
perennial philosophy
philosophy
salvation
The Crossing
The Road
Product details
- ISBN 9780826363343
- Weight: 333g
- Dimensions: 151 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 May 2021
- Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A Bloody and Barbarous God investigates the relationship between gnosticism, a system of thought that argues that the cosmos is evil and that the human spirit must strive for liberation from manifest existence, and the perennial philosophy, a study of the highest common factor in all esoteric religions, and how these traditions have influenced the later novels of Cormac McCarthy, namely Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain, No Country for Old Men, and The Road. Mundik argues that McCarthy continually strives to evolve an explanatory theodicy throughout his work and that his novels are, to a lesser or greater extent, concerned with the meaning of human existence in relation to the presence of evil and the nature of the divine.
Petra Mundik is a research assistant at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia. She has published articles, chapters, essays, and papers on Cormac McCarthy and is at work on a second book dealing with his early novels.
