Cormac McCarthy : new directions /
edited by James D. Lilley.
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, (c)2002.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: "There was map enough for men to read": storytelling, the Border trilogy, and New directions / History and the ugly facts of Blood meridian / The lay of the land in Cormac McCarthy's Appalachia / The sacred hunter and the eucharist of the wilderness: mythic reconstructions in Blood meridian / History, bloodshed, and the spectacle of American identity in Blood meridian / Abjection and "the feminine" in Outer dark / All the pretty Mexicos: Cormac McCarthy's Mexican representations / "Blood is blood": All the pretty horses in the multicultural literature class / The cave of oblivion: platonic mythology in Child of God / From Beowulf to Blood meridian: Cormac McCarthy's demystification of the martial code / McCarthy and the sacred: a reading of The crossing / "See the child": the melancholy subtext of Blood meridian / Leaving the dark night of the lie: a Kristevan reading of Cormac McCarthy's border fiction / "Hallucinated recollections": narrative as spatialized perception of history in The orchard keeper / Cormac McCarthy's sense of an ending: serialized narrative and revision in Cities of the plain / James D. Lilley -- Dana Phillips -- K. Wesley Berry -- Sara Spurgeon -- Adam Parkes -- Ann Fisher-Wirth -- Daniel Cooper Alarcón -- Timothy P. Caron -- Dianne C. Luce -- Rick Wallach -- Edwin T. Arnold -- George Guillemin -- Linda Townley Woodson -- Matthew R. Horton -- Robert L. Jarrett.
Critics have been quick to address Cormac McCarthy's indebtedness to southern literature, Christianity, and existential thought, but the essays in this collection are among the first to tackle such issues as gender and race in McCarthy's work.
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McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023 --Criticism and interpretation.