Styles of Extinction: Cormac McCarthy's The Road

Mark Steven is a PhD Candidate at the University of Sydney, Australia, where he teaches media, popular culture, and cultural theory and convenes the Modern and Contemporary Literature and Culture research cluster. He has published articles and chapters on literature, cinema, and philosophy. Julian Murphet is Professor of Modern Film and Literature at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is the author of Multimedia Modernism (Cambridge University Press, 2009), Literature and Race in Los Angeles (Cambridge University Press, 2001), co-author of Narrative and Media (Cambridge University Press, 2005), and co-editor of Literature and Visual Technologies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).

"A series of brilliant illuminations of McCarthy's great darkness, and great literary power.  This book carries the fire." -- Michael Zeitlin, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of British Columbia, Canada

• Introduction; Part One: The Aesthetics of Politics; 1. The Late World of Cormac McCarthy; Mark Steven; 2. All the Trees in the World: Cormac McCarthy and the Politics of the Worst; Paul Sheehan; 3. The Road and 'The End of Capitalism'; Julian Murphet; Part Two: The Politics of Aesthetics; 4. McCarthy's Rhythm; Sean Pryor; 5. The Cold Illucid World: Cormac McCarthy's Poetics of Gray; Chris Danta; 6. TBC: chapter on film adaptation; 6. Spring Has Lost its Scent: Allegory, Ruination, and Suicidal Melancholia; Grace Hellyer; 7. McCarthy's Fire; Paul Patton; Index; Bibliography.