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The Routledge Companion to Masculinity in American Literature and Culture offers scholarly examinations of representations of masculinities in American literary and cultural artifacts from the early colonial period to the present, with a focus on contemporary crises, possibilities, and opportunities.

Cormac McCarthy: A complexity theory of literature offers the first sustained analysis of complexity science in McCarthy's literary works. McCarthy's fiction makes a significant case study demonstrating how literature can help us imagine and grapple with complex systems and crises, from global economic inequality to climate change.

The Routledge Companion to Masculinity in American Literature and Culture offers scholarly examinations of representations of masculinities in American literary and cultural artifacts from the early colonial period to the present, with a focus on contemporary crises, possibilities, and opportunities.

Combining the fields of evolutionary economics and the humanities, this book examines McCarthy's literary works as a significant case study demonstrating our need to recognise the interrelated complexities of economic policies, environmental crises, and how public policy and rhetoric shapes our value systems. In a world recovering from global economic crisis and poised on the brink of another, studying the methods by which literature interroga...

The Western genre provides the most widely recognized, iconic images of masculinity in the United States - gun-slinging, laconic white male heroes who emphasize individualism, violence, and an idiosyncratic form of justice. This idealized masculinity has been fused with ideas of national identity and character. Masculinities in Literature of the American West examines how contemporary literary Westerns push back against the coded image of the ...

No More Heroes" directly addresses the essential question about McCarthy's morally ambiguous and apocalyptic world, revealing poignant, new answers that will enlighten critics and general readers alike. Cooper evaluates all of McCarthy's work to date, carefully exploring the range of his narrative techniques to reveal rare but powerful moments of internal yearnings, and commitment to justice or compassion that separate McCarthy's work from abs...

The Western genre provides the most widely recognized, iconic images of masculinity in the United States - gun-slinging, laconic white male heroes who emphasize individualism, violence, and an idiosyncratic form of justice. This idealized masculinity has been fused with ideas of national identity and character. Masculinities in Literature of the American West examines how contemporary literary Westerns push back against the coded image of the ...