{"product_id":"9781647792312-tangential-terrains","title":"Tangential Terrains","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCormac McCarthy's Geoaesthetics\u003cbr\u003e\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. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\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\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57350933250422,"sku":"9781647792312","price":47.11,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_40183843.jpg?v=1772661549","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781647792312-tangential-terrains","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}