Stefanie Heine is an associate professor of comparative literature at the University of Copenhagen. She is the author of both Visible Words and Chromatic Pulse: Virginia Woolf's Writing, Impressionist Painting, Maurice Blanchot's Image and Poetics of Breathing: Modern Literature's Syncope, among other books.

• Contents Introduction Descriptive Pauses versus Narrative Progression Abandoning the Character Perspective Tangentiality versus Entanglement Desert Wastelands Tangential Reading Migratory Spalls of Burning Matter Defiant Terrains 2. Representations and Things McCarthy's Language Theory Reframed Literary Defiance of Nomenclature and Representationalism Toward a Literary Geomorphology Geoaesthetic Effects in Chamberlain and McCarthy Formless Resemblance Elemental and Written Forms at Work 4. Floating Worlds, Floating Words Dividing Out, Holding Together Continental and Textual Drift Liminal Localities, Desert Ab-solutes Use and Textual Recycling Mythical Family Relations between Humans and Stone Linguistic Links Ambiguities Acoustic Tangents, Fearful Symmetries 6. Animal Terrain Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

"In Tangential Terrains, Heine shows that she is an extraordinarily adept close reader, and her writing contains a number of excellent, fine-grained analyses that manage to shed new light on even some of the most canonized passages in Blood Meridian. Moreover, her extensive archival work provides eye-opening insights into McCarthy's methods of composition." —Tore Rye Andersen, associate professor of comparative literature, Aarhus University, Denmark, author of Planetary Pynchon: History, Modernity, and the Anthropocene  "The problem of geoaesthetics is explored in Tangential Terrains in meticulous individual analyses and close readings. Heine combines an extremely high theoretical level with precise philological work. If there is to be anything like an inorganic turn in literary studies in the near future, this book will play a major role in it."  —Wolfgang Hottner, associate professor in comparative literature, University of Bergen, Norway, author of Crystallizations: Aesthetics and Poetics of the Inorganic in the late 18th Century

Stefanie Heine is an associate professor of comparative literature at the University of Copenhagen. She is the author of both Visible Words and Chromatic Pulse: Virginia Woolf's Writing, Impressionist Painting, Maurice Blanchot's Image and Poetics of Breathing: Modern Literature's Syncope, among other books.

• Contents Introduction Descriptive Pauses versus Narrative Progression Abandoning the Character Perspective Tangentiality versus Entanglement Desert Wastelands Tangential Reading Migratory Spalls of Burning Matter Defiant Terrains 2. Representations and Things McCarthy's Language Theory Reframed Literary Defiance of Nomenclature and Representationalism Toward a Literary Geomorphology Geoaesthetic Effects in Chamberlain and McCarthy Formless Resemblance Elemental and Written Forms at Work 4. Floating Worlds, Floating Words Dividing Out, Holding Together Continental and Textual Drift Liminal Localities, Desert Ab-solutes Use and Textual Recycling Mythical Family Relations between Humans and Stone Linguistic Links Ambiguities Acoustic Tangents, Fearful Symmetries 6. Animal Terrain Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

"In Tangential Terrains, Heine shows that she is an extraordinarily adept close reader, and her writing contains a number of excellent, fine-grained analyses that manage to shed new light on even some of the most canonized passages in Blood Meridian. Moreover, her extensive archival work provides eye-opening insights into McCarthy's methods of composition." —Tore Rye Andersen, associate professor of comparative literature, Aarhus University, Denmark, author of Planetary Pynchon: History, Modernity, and the Anthropocene  "The problem of geoaesthetics is explored in Tangential Terrains in meticulous individual analyses and close readings. Heine combines an extremely high theoretical level with precise philological work. If there is to be anything like an inorganic turn in literary studies in the near future, this book will play a major role in it."  —Wolfgang Hottner, associate professor in comparative literature, University of Bergen, Norway, author of Crystallizations: Aesthetics and Poetics of the Inorganic in the late 18th Century

Stefanie Heine is an associate professor of comparative literature at the University of Copenhagen. She is the author of both Visible Words and Chromatic Pulse: Virginia Woolf's Writing, Impressionist Painting, Maurice Blanchot's Image and Poetics of Breathing: Modern Literature's Syncope, among other books.

• Contents Introduction Descriptive Pauses versus Narrative Progression Abandoning the Character Perspective Tangentiality versus Entanglement Desert Wastelands Tangential Reading Migratory Spalls of Burning Matter Defiant Terrains 2. Representations and Things McCarthy's Language Theory Reframed Literary Defiance of Nomenclature and Representationalism Toward a Literary Geomorphology Geoaesthetic Effects in Chamberlain and McCarthy Formless Resemblance Elemental and Written Forms at Work 4. Floating Worlds, Floating Words Dividing Out, Holding Together Continental and Textual Drift Liminal Localities, Desert Ab-solutes Use and Textual Recycling Mythical Family Relations between Humans and Stone Linguistic Links Ambiguities Acoustic Tangents, Fearful Symmetries 6. Animal Terrain Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

"In Tangential Terrains, Heine shows that she is an extraordinarily adept close reader, and her writing contains a number of excellent, fine-grained analyses that manage to shed new light on even some of the most canonized passages in Blood Meridian. Moreover, her extensive archival work provides eye-opening insights into McCarthy's methods of composition." —Tore Rye Andersen, associate professor of comparative literature, Aarhus University, Denmark, author of Planetary Pynchon: History, Modernity, and the Anthropocene  "The problem of geoaesthetics is explored in Tangential Terrains in meticulous individual analyses and close readings. Heine combines an extremely high theoretical level with precise philological work. If there is to be anything like an inorganic turn in literary studies in the near future, this book will play a major role in it."  —Wolfgang Hottner, associate professor in comparative literature, University of Bergen, Norway, author of Crystallizations: Aesthetics and Poetics of the Inorganic in the late 18th Century