{"product_id":"tangential-terrains-cormac-mccarthys-geoaesthetics-9781647792312","title":"Tangential Terrains: Cormac McCarthy's Geoaesthetics","description":"\u003ci\u003eTangential Terrains\u003c\/i\u003e is an ecocritical study of the work of Cormac McCarthy, focusing primarily on his depictions of the desert and inorganic nature in \u003ci\u003eBlood Meridian\u003c\/i\u003e. Close readings of previously unexamined archival manuscripts and drafts shed new light on McCarthy's compositional processes, revealing how the development of written matter in the novel-in-progress can correspond to geological processes like erosion, erratics, stratification, and continental drift. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlood Meridian\u003c\/i\u003e's emergent geoaesthetics reveals forces operating according to other-than-human principles, as literary desert terrains retain a passive resistance, or \u003ci\u003eweak agency\u003c\/i\u003e, which presents a radical disturbance of anthropocentrism, mirrored in the novel's style. Though the mediated unstable deserts in \u003ci\u003eBlood Meridian\u003c\/i\u003e defy appropriation, they are neither untouched nor untouchable: the borderlands bear the wounds and \"blood meridians\" of a non-chronological history of violence, tangential to the massacres of Native American and Mexican peoples depicted in the novel. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Stefanie Heine's reading of \u003ci\u003eBlood Meridian\u003c\/i\u003e offers a crucial contribution to and intervention in contemporary ecocriticism, Anthropocene criticism, and New Materialist theories, encouraging readers to critically rethink customary notions of entanglement, kinship, and agency.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStefanie Heine \u003c\/b\u003eis an associate professor of comparative literature at the University of Copenhagen. She is the author of both \u003ci\u003eVisible Words and Chromatic Pulse: Virginia Woolf's Writing, Impressionist Painting, Maurice Blanchot's Image \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePoetics of Breathing: Modern Literature's Syncope\u003c\/i\u003e, among other books.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Nevada Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52158580130066,"sku":"9781647792312","price":59.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_33893e73-8686-4aec-b195-016d32a51ee1.jpg?v=1774966780","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/tangential-terrains-cormac-mccarthys-geoaesthetics-9781647792312","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}