Bloom's Guides: Cormac McCarthy's The Road
Subtitle: Comprehensive Research & Study Guides
By: edited & with an introduction by Harold Bloom
Series: Bloom's guides
Publisher: Bloom's Literary Criticism
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9781617530029
Subjects: Fathers and sons in literature; Survival in literature; Apocalypse in literature; Regression (Civilization) in literature; Redemption in literature; Good and evil in literature
Other titles: Road
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Biographical sketch; title: The story behind the story; title: List of characters; title: Summary and analysis; title: Critical views: Todd Shy on The road, The book of Job, and questions about evil; title: Thomas A. Carlson on McCarthy's existential themes; title: Carl James Grindley on the novel's setting; title: Alex Hunt and Martin M. Jacobsen on the image of the sun; title: Barbara Bennett on the image of fire and references to Yeats's poetry; title: Shelly Rambo on the theme of redemption; title: Ashley Kunsa on style in The road; title: Thomas H. Schaub on allusion, style, and the theme of storytelling; title: John Jurgensen on the backstory to The road; title: Rune Graulund on the desert setting; title: Works by Cormac McCarthy; title: Annotated bibliography; title: Contributors.