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Cormac McCarthy's All the pretty horses / edited & with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Van Pelt Library PS3563.C337 A793 2004
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Bloom's guides
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- McCarthy, Cormac, 1933- All the pretty horses.
- McCarthy, Cormac.
- Mexican-American Border Region--In literature.
- Mexican-American Border Region.
- Western stories--History and criticism.
- Western stories.
- Physical Description:
- 126 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, PA : Chelsea House, [2004]
- Summary:
- - Comprehensive reading and study guides for some of the world's most important literary masterpieces - Concise critical excerpts provide a scholarly overview of each work - "The Story Behind the Story" details the conditions under which the work was written - Each book includes a biographical sketch of the author, a descriptive list of characters, an extensive summary and analysis, and an annotated bibliography
- Contents:
- The Story Behind the Story 11
- Critical Views 56
- Alan Cheuse on Landscape 56
- Vereen M. Bell on "Between the Wish and the Thing the World Lies Waiting" 59
- Nell Sullivan on Male Desire 63
- Phillip A. Snyder on Cowboy Codes 68
- Tom Pilkington on Fate and Free Will on the American Frontier 73
- Edwin T. Arnold on Dreams and Visions 76
- Mark Busby on Cormac McCarthy's Border Crossings 83
- Sara L. Spurgeon on Truth and Redemption 86
- Nancy Kreml on Stylistic Variation and Cognitive Constraint 92
- Dianne C. Luce on John Grady Cole's Heroism 97
- John Wegner on History and Fiction 104.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 110-115) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0791075680
- OCLC:
- 52620531
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