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Science and Literature in Cormac McCarthy’s Expanding Worlds

Giemza, Bryan
Heftet / 2024 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781501383816
Publisert
2024-12-26
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic USA
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
184

Forfatter
Giemza, Bryan

Biographical note

Bryan A. Giemza is Associate Professor of Humanities and Literature at Texas Tech University, USA. He is author or editor of six books, including Irish Catholic Writers and the Invention of the American South (2013), winner of the 2014 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Studies Award, and Images of Depression-Era Louisiana: The FSA Photographs of Ben Shahn, Russell Lee, and Marion Post Wolcott (2017; with Maria Hebert Leiter).

Science and Literature in Cormac McCarthy’s Expanding Worlds

Giemza, Bryan
Heftet / 2024 / Engelsk
Giemza, Bryan
Heftet / 2024 / Engelsk
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Giemza has been able to probe the role of science in shaping McCarthy’s imagination in a way few others have had an opportunity to do ... An essential companion for anyone interested in a deeper scholarly and thematic treatment of McCarthy and his works.

Philip D. Bunn, The University Bookman

Bryan Giemza’s groundbreaking study of the integration of science and humanities in Cormac McCarthy’s fiction is both beautifully written and compelling. His investigation into McCarthy’s scientific fascination and his experience at the Santa Fe Institute offers a convergence of what too often are viewed as disparate cultures, instead positing imaginative symmetries which yield fresh and provocative insights.

Robert Newman, President, National Humanities Center, USA

If you ever wished you could probe the mind of Cormac McCarthy to untangle the complexities of his novels, Bryan Giemza has written a fascinating manual with valuable keys to explicating much of McCarthy’s later work.

Dennis McCarthy, author of The Gospel According to Billy the Kid (2021)

Bryan Giemza challenges the myth of the solitary genius, both in scientific and humanistic endeavors, and demonstrates how Cormac McCarthy is the exceptional figure whose work allows and encourages us to interrogate the marriage of the sciences and humanities. Drawing from previously unsurfaced archival connections as well as a range of primary sources and interview subjects, including those close to McCarthy, Giemza places McCarthy’s work within contemporary scientific discourse and literary criticism. Timely and innovative in both content and structure, the volume includes a biographical examination of the writer's love of science and the path that led him to the Santa Fe Institute and offers a rare look behind its closed doors.The book probes the STEM subjects – with chapters focused on technology, engineering, and math – within and throughout McCarthy’s fictional universe and biography. The final chapter explores McCarthy’s friendship with Guy Davenport and their shared interest in creating a unified aesthetic theory alongside McCarthy’s essays and most recent literary projects, The Passenger and Stella Maris. In arguing that science and art are connected by aesthetics, Giemza confirms the profound truth of McCarthy’s unwavering belief that "There’s a beauty to science" and a language of human understanding that transcends words.
Les mer
List of Figures1. Introduction: The Trail to Santa Fe and to the Stars (and Why It’s Good Craic)Science2. Starting from a Unified Place: How Chirality and Handedness Inform McCarthy’s UniverseTechnology3. Blowing Up Knoxville: How Domestic Terrorism and Actual Misadventures with Dynamite Shaped McCarthy's WorldEngineering and the Built Environment4. Hypanthropic Times: How the Tennessee Valley Authority Sculpted the Mountains, Drifted the McCarthy Family, and Flooded Cormac’s ImaginationMath5. Unified Minds and Fractured Minds: Toward No Probable ConclusionsAcknowledgmentsIndex
Les mer
The first book on Cormac McCarthy’s engagement with the natural sciences, paving the way for discussions on both McCarthy’s collected works to date and the intersections of the humanities and science.
A bracing new way of understanding McCarthy’s fiction and thinking, featuring new archival discoveries and biographical research

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Giemza has been able to probe the role of science in shaping McCarthy’s imagination in a way few others have had an opportunity to do ... An essential companion for anyone interested in a deeper scholarly and thematic treatment of McCarthy and his works.

Philip D. Bunn, The University Bookman

Bryan Giemza’s groundbreaking study of the integration of science and humanities in Cormac McCarthy’s fiction is both beautifully written and compelling. His investigation into McCarthy’s scientific fascination and his experience at the Santa Fe Institute offers a convergence of what too often are viewed as disparate cultures, instead positing imaginative symmetries which yield fresh and provocative insights.

Robert Newman, President, National Humanities Center, USA

If you ever wished you could probe the mind of Cormac McCarthy to untangle the complexities of his novels, Bryan Giemza has written a fascinating manual with valuable keys to explicating much of McCarthy’s later work.

Dennis McCarthy, author of The Gospel According to Billy the Kid (2021)

Bryan Giemza challenges the myth of the solitary genius, both in scientific and humanistic endeavors, and demonstrates how Cormac McCarthy is the exceptional figure whose work allows and encourages us to interrogate the marriage of the sciences and humanities. Drawing from previously unsurfaced archival connections as well as a range of primary sources and interview subjects, including those close to McCarthy, Giemza places McCarthy’s work within contemporary scientific discourse and literary criticism. Timely and innovative in both content and structure, the volume includes a biographical examination of the writer's love of science and the path that led him to the Santa Fe Institute and offers a rare look behind its closed doors.The book probes the STEM subjects – with chapters focused on technology, engineering, and math – within and throughout McCarthy’s fictional universe and biography. The final chapter explores McCarthy’s friendship with Guy Davenport and their shared interest in creating a unified aesthetic theory alongside McCarthy’s essays and most recent literary projects, The Passenger and Stella Maris. In arguing that science and art are connected by aesthetics, Giemza confirms the profound truth of McCarthy’s unwavering belief that "There’s a beauty to science" and a language of human understanding that transcends words.
Les mer
List of Figures1. Introduction: The Trail to Santa Fe and to the Stars (and Why It’s Good Craic)Science2. Starting from a Unified Place: How Chirality and Handedness Inform McCarthy’s UniverseTechnology3. Blowing Up Knoxville: How Domestic Terrorism and Actual Misadventures with Dynamite Shaped McCarthy's WorldEngineering and the Built Environment4. Hypanthropic Times: How the Tennessee Valley Authority Sculpted the Mountains, Drifted the McCarthy Family, and Flooded Cormac’s ImaginationMath5. Unified Minds and Fractured Minds: Toward No Probable ConclusionsAcknowledgmentsIndex
Les mer
The first book on Cormac McCarthy’s engagement with the natural sciences, paving the way for discussions on both McCarthy’s collected works to date and the intersections of the humanities and science.
A bracing new way of understanding McCarthy’s fiction and thinking, featuring new archival discoveries and biographical research

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781501383816
Publisert
2024-12-26
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic USA
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
184

Forfatter
Giemza, Bryan

Biographical note

Bryan A. Giemza is Associate Professor of Humanities and Literature at Texas Tech University, USA. He is author or editor of six books, including Irish Catholic Writers and the Invention of the American South (2013), winner of the 2014 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Studies Award, and Images of Depression-Era Louisiana: The FSA Photographs of Ben Shahn, Russell Lee, and Marion Post Wolcott (2017; with Maria Hebert Leiter).

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