Stefanie Heine: Tangential Terrains

Cover: 9781647792312 | Tangential Terrains | Cormac McCarthy's Geoaesthetics | Stefanie Heine

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Tangential Terrains is an ecocritical study of the work of Cormac McCarthy, focusing primarily on his depictions of the desert and inorganic nature in Blood Meridian. 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.

Blood Meridian's emergent geoaesthetics reveals forces operating according to other-than-human principles, as literary desert terrains retain a passive resistance, or weak agency, which presents a radical disturbance of anthropocentrism, mirrored in the novel's style. Though the mediated unstable deserts in Blood Meridian 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.

Stefanie Heine's reading of Blood Meridian 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.

Über den Autor

Stefanie Heine is an associate professor of comparative literature at the University of Copenhagen. She is the author of both Visible Words and Chromatic Pulse: Virginia Woolf's Writing, Impressionist Painting, Maurice Blanchot's Image and Poetics of Breathing: Modern Literature's Syncope, among other books.

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Contents

Introduction

Descriptive Pauses versus Narrative Progression

Abandoning the Character Perspective

Tangentiality versus Entanglement

Desert Wastelands

Tangential Reading

Migratory Spalls of Burning Matter

Defiant Terrains

2. Representations and Things

McCarthy's Language Theory Reframed

Literary Defiance of Nomenclature and Representationalism

Toward a Literary Geomorphology

Geoaesthetic Effects in Chamberlain and McCarthy

Formless Resemblance

Elemental and Written Forms at Work

4. Floating Worlds, Floating Words

Dividing Out, Holding Together

Continental and Textual Drift

Liminal Localities, Desert Ab-solutes

Use and Textual Recycling

Mythical Family Relations between Humans and Stone

Linguistic Links

Ambiguities

Acoustic Tangents, Fearful Symmetries

6. Animal Terrain

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2026
Genre:	Importe
Produktart:	Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik:	Hobby & Freizeit
Thema:	Freizeit & Natur
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Western Literature and Fiction Series
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9781647792312
ISBN-10:	1647792312
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Heine, Stefanie
Hersteller:	University of Nevada Press Western Literature and Fiction Series
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, ?-4831 GR Breda, gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk
Maße:	151 x 228 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	Stefanie Heine
Erscheinungsdatum:	10.03.2026
Gewicht:	0,334 kg