Cormac McCarthy : new directions / edited by James D. Lilley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lilley, James D. (James David), 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

McCarthy, Cormac.

Mexican-American Border Region--In literature.

Mexican-American Border Region.

Southern States--In literature.

Southern States.

Tennessee, East--In literature.

Tennessee, East.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (362 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque, [New Mexico] : University of New Mexico Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION: "There Was Map Enough for Men to Read": Storytelling, the Border Trilogy, and New Directions by James D. Lilley; History and the Ugly Facts of Blood Meridian by Dana Phillips; The Lay of the Land in Cormac McCarthy's Appalachia by K. Wesley Berry; The Sacred Hunter and the Eucharist of the Wilderness: Mythic Reconstructions in Blood Meridian by Sara Spurgeon; History, Bloodshed, and the Spectacle of American Identity in Blood Meridian by Adam Parkes; Abjection and "the Feminine" in Outer Dark by Ann Fisher-Wirth

All the Pretty Mexicos: Cormac McCarthy's Mexican Representations by Daniel Cooper Alarcón"Blood is Blood": All The Pretty Horses in the Multicultural Literature Class by Timothy P. Caron; The Cave of Oblivion: Platonic Mythology in Child of God by Dianne C. Luce; From Beowulf to Blood Meridian: Cormac McCarthy's Demystification of the Martial Code by Rick Wallach; McCarthy and the Sacred: A Reading of The Crossing by Edwin T. Arnold; "See the Child": The Melancholy Subtext of Blood Meridian by George Guillemin

Leaving the Dark Night of the Lie: A Kristevan Reading of Cormac McCarthy's Border Fiction by Linda Townley Woodson"Hallucinated Recollections": Narrative as Spatialized Perception of History in The Orchard Keeper by Matthew R. Horton; Cormac McCarthy's Sense of an Ending: Serialized Narrative and Revision in Cities of the Plain by Robert L. Jarrett; INDEX; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780826327680

0826327680

OCLC:

869521553