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Offers a fresh perspective into the book of Job by reading it alongside the fiction of Cormac McCarthy. While some critics have previously identified Joban overtones in McCarthy's work, Philip Thomas argues for something far stronger: a recurrent Joban resonance throughout McCarthy's works.

Table of Contents
  • Introduction: True Words in Literature
  • 1 Of Darkness and Definition: Not the Why but the How
  • 2 The Fruitlessness of Philosophical Theodicy: An Untamable God
  • 3 The Decentering of the Human Subject: Anthropocentric Impotence
  • 4 The Looming Threat of Chaos: An Unpredictable Creation
  • 5 The Possibility of Hope: Between the Idealized and the Real
  • 6 Of Theodicy and Transformation: McCarthy as Theologian

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      Publisher: Baylor University Press
      Publication Date: 30/11/2021
      ISBN13: 9781481315982, 978-1481315982
      ISBN10: 1481315986
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Offers a fresh perspective into the book of Job by reading it alongside the fiction of Cormac McCarthy. While some critics have previously identified Joban overtones in McCarthy's work, Philip Thomas argues for something far stronger: a recurrent Joban resonance throughout McCarthy's works.

      Table of Contents
      • Introduction: True Words in Literature
      • 1 Of Darkness and Definition: Not the Why but the How
      • 2 The Fruitlessness of Philosophical Theodicy: An Untamable God
      • 3 The Decentering of the Human Subject: Anthropocentric Impotence
      • 4 The Looming Threat of Chaos: An Unpredictable Creation
      • 5 The Possibility of Hope: Between the Idealized and the Real
      • 6 Of Theodicy and Transformation: McCarthy as Theologian

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