{"id":516411,"date":"2010-04-05T15:29:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T19:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.utk.edu\/tntoday\/?p=19845"},"modified":"2010-04-05T15:29:14","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T19:29:14","slug":"ut-to-host-cormac-mccarthy-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/516411","title":{"rendered":"UT to Host Cormac McCarthy Scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19846\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 190px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.utk.edu\/tntoday\/wp-content\/uploads\/chris_walsh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19846 \" title=\"chris_walsh\" src=\"http:\/\/www.utk.edu\/tntoday\/wp-content\/uploads\/chris_walsh-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Walsh<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>KNOXVILLE &#8212; Author and Cormac McCarthy scholar Christopher J. Walsh will speak at the East Tennessee History Center in Knoxville and at Hodges Library at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, April 7-8.<\/p>\n<p>Walsh will discuss his latest book on McCarthy, &#8220;In the Wake of the Sun: Navigating the Southern Works of Cormac McCarthy,&#8221; at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 7, at the East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, April 8, at 4 p.m., Walsh will give a talk on &#8220;Publishing With a Digital Press,&#8221; in the Hodges Library Auditorium, 1015 Volunteer Blvd. Both events are free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Walsh published &#8220;In the Wake of the Sun&#8221; with Newfound Press, the UT Libraries&#8217; digital press. The book offers a close textual analysis of all of the Southern works of McCarthy, a Knoxville native, along with an overview of the notable critical responses to the books. Introducing readers, scholars and students to the major themes running through McCarthy&#8217;s books, Walsh guides readers through the significant critical dialogues surrounding each text.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;McCarthy&#8217;s work obviously reverberates beyond East Tennessee and Appalachia,&#8221; Walsh writes in the conclusion to the book, &#8220;but we should not underestimate how much the region has informed McCarthy&#8217;s artistic development. The humor, tall tales and oral traditions indigenous to the region are lovingly recreated in McCarthy&#8217;s Southern texts, and this love of narrative informs his Western and Southwestern works.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Print copies of the book will be available for purchase for $25 each. His book is available for online viewing by visiting http:\/\/www.newfoundpress.utk.edu\/pubs\/walsh\/.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>C O N T A C T :<\/p>\n<p>Martha Rudolph (865-974-4273, mrudolp2@utk.edu)<\/p>\n<p>Charles Primm (865-974-5180, charles.primm@tennessee.edu)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Walsh KNOXVILLE &#8212; Author and Cormac McCarthy scholar Christopher J. Walsh will speak at the East Tennessee History Center in Knoxville and at Hodges Library at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, April 7-8. Walsh will discuss his latest book on McCarthy, &#8220;In the Wake of the Sun: Navigating the Southern Works of Cormac McCarthy,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":233,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/233"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}