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Professing Darkness : Cormac McCarthy's Catholic Critique of American Enlightenment
- Author / Creator
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Details
- Creator
- D. Marcel DeCoste
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- Baton Rouge, Louisiana : Louisiana State University Press, [2024]
- ©2024
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (284 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9780807181539, 0807182311, 9780807182321, 080718232X, 0807181536, 9780807182314
- OCLC
- on1427662712
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- COVER -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION. The Only Words I Know Are the Catholic Ones: McCarthy's Christian Critique of American Enlightenment -- 1 Disenchantment and Dependence: The Contending Creeds of Enlightenment and Catholicism -- 2 In This Lush Waste: Commodification, Communion, and the Sacramental Margins in Suttree -- 3 A Figure of Wretched Arrogance: Reifying Autonomy, Dehumanizing Science, and the Hope of Conversion in Outer Dark and Child of God -- 4 Properly Suzerain of the Earth: Augustinian Evil and the Unmaking of Diabolical Enlightenment in Blood Meridian -- 5 La Fe Es Todo: False Innocence and Broken Faith in the Border Trilogy -- 6 Like the Last Host of Christendom: Deadly Pragmatism, Profane Communion, and the Power of Eucharist in The Road -- CODA. The Unimaginable Penitent: Penance and the Myth of American Innocence in The Counselor, The Passenger, and Stella Maris -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX