Science and Literature in Cormac McCarthy's Expanding Worlds

by Giemza, Bryan
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ISBN: 9781501383779
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Science and Literature in Cormac McCarthy's Expanding Worlds is a timely and innovative volume that places Cormac McCarthy's work within contemporary scientific discourse and literary criticism, including a biographical examination of the writer's love of science and the path that led him to the Santa Fe Institute. The book probes the STEM subjects - with chapters focused on science and math, technology, and engineering - within and throughout McCarthy's fictional universe and biography. The final chapter considers the art in the science by exploring McCarthy's friendship with Guy Davenport and their shared interest in creating a unified aesthetic theory alongside McCarthy's essays on the origins of science and language and his most recent literary project, The Passenger.

Bryan Giemza challenges the myth of the solitary genius, both in scientific and humanistic endeavors, and demonstrates how Cormac McCarthy is the exceptional figure through whose work we can and should interrogate the marriage of the sciences and humanities. In arguing that science and art are connected by aesthetics, this study ends by confirming the profound truth of McCarthy's unwavering belief that There's a beauty to science and a language of human understanding that transcends words.

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Author: Giemza, Bryan
  • ISBN: 9781501383779
  • Condition: New
  • Dimensions: 9.00 x 1.00
  • Number Of Pages: 176
  • Publication Year: 2023
Language: English

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