Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy
- Series page
- The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy
- The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology of McCarthy’s Life and Works
- Introduction
- Part I Influence and Innovation
- Part II Beginnings in the American South
- Part III The Move Westward
- Part IV The Novels
- 8 Outer Darkand Romantic Naturalism
- 9 Blood Meridianand the Poetics of Violence
- 10 All the Pretty Horses,the Border, and Ethnic Encounter
- 11 The Quest for God inThe Road
- Part V Themes and Issues
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
11 - The Quest for God inThe Road
from Part IV - The Novels
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2013
- The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy
- Series page
- The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy
- The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology of McCarthy’s Life and Works
- Introduction
- Part I Influence and Innovation
- Part II Beginnings in the American South
- Part III The Move Westward
- Part IV The Novels
- 8 Outer Darkand Romantic Naturalism
- 9 Blood Meridianand the Poetics of Violence
- 10 All the Pretty Horses,the Border, and Ethnic Encounter
- 11 The Quest for God inThe Road
- Part V Themes and Issues
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
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- The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy , pp. 133 - 146Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013
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