Cormac McCarthy / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Harold.

Series:

Bloom's modern critical views

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023--Criticism and interpretation.

McCarthy, Cormac.

McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023.

Criticism and interpretation.

Mexican-American Border Region--In literature.

Mexican-American Border Region.

Tennessee, East--In literature.

Tennessee, East.

Southern States--In literature.

Southern States.

East Tennessee.

Physical Description:

vii, 216 pages ; 25 cm.

Edition:

New edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Bloom's Literary Criticism, [2009]

Summary:

Through a series of vivid and critically acclaimed novels, including Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, and The Road, Cormac McCarthy has established himself as a major voice in contemporary American fiction. His works are marked by piercing explorations of the nature of evil and the uncontrollable forces that often govern human lives. This new edition offers a collection of full-length critical essays discussing McCarthy's novels, a chronology, a bibliography, notes on the contributors, and an introduction and editor's note by renowned scholar Harold Bloom.

The Bloom's Modern Critical Views series presents critical portraits of the writers that are most widely read and studied in high schools and colleges. Each volume opens with an introductory essay by Harold Bloom in which he offers his insights into the author's work and an editor's note that comments on the individual analyses that follow. Also included are bibliographic references, notes on the various contributors, and a useful chronology of the writer's life. Bloom's Modern Critical Views is a critical presentation of those men and women who, from ancient times to the present, have shaped the Western literary tradition.

Contents:

Introduction / Harold Bloom 1

"The Very Life of the Darkness": A Reading of Blood Meridian / Steven Shaviro 9

Reeds and Hides: Cormac McCarthy's Domestic Spaces / Terri Witek 23

"Wars and Rumors of Wars" in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy / John Wegner 31

Introduction: The Prototypical Suttree / Georg Guillemin 49

The Changing Landscape of Violence in Cormac McCarthy's Early Novels and the Border Trilogy / Vince Brewton 63

Foundation of Empire: The Sacred Hunter and the Eucharist of the Wilderness in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian / Sara L. Spurgeon 85

Discovering Fourthspace in Appalachia: Cormac McCarthy's Outer Dark and Child of God / James R. Giles 107

Fetish and Collapse in No Country for Old Men / Jay Ellis 133

Animals and Death in The Gardener's Son, The Stonemason, "Bounty," and "The Dark Waters" / Wallis R. Sanborn III 171

The Road / John Cant 183.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-208) and index.

ISBN:

9781604133950

1604133953

OCLC:

253636945