Cormac McCarthy: A complexity theory of literature

by Lydia R. Cooper

Combining the fields of evolutionary economics and the humanities, this book examines McCarthy’s literary works as a significant case study demonstrating our need to recognise the interrelated complexities of economic policies, environmental crises, and how public policy and rhetoric shapes our value systems. In a world recovering from global economic crisis and poised on the brink of another, studying the methods by which literature interrogates narratives of inevitability around global economic inequality and eco-disaster is ever more relevant.

248 pages, Paperback

Published June 27, 2023

About the author

Lydia R. Cooper is an author and educator who lives in Omaha, Nebraska.