{"product_id":"tangential-terrains-by-stefanie-heine-9781647792312","title":"Tangential Terrains","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTangential Terrains\u003c\/em\u003e is an ecocritical study of the work of Cormac McCarthy, focusing primarily on his depictions of the desert and inorganic nature in \u003cem\u003eBlood Meridian\u003c\/em\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlood Meridian\u003c\/em\u003e's emergent geoaesthetics reveals forces operating according to other-than-human principles, as literary desert terrains retain a passive resistance, or \u003cem\u003eweak agency\u003c\/em\u003e, which presents a radical disturbance of anthropocentrism, mirrored in the novel's style. Though the mediated unstable deserts in \u003cem\u003eBlood Meridian\u003c\/em\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStefanie Heine's reading of \u003cem\u003eBlood Meridian\u003c\/em\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47647728468204,"sku":"9781647792312","price":174.39,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/b7f6dcb69db02c97abdf3733358c85e2.jpg?v=1779234654","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/tangential-terrains-by-stefanie-heine-9781647792312","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}