Cormac McCarthy / editor, David N. Cremean, Black Hills State University.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cremean, David N., editor.

Series:

Critical insights.

Critical insights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

McCarthy, Cormac.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 329 pages).

Place of Publication:

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Edited by David Cremean, Associate Professor of English at Black Hills State University and an editor for The Cormac McCarthy Journal, this volume in the Critical Insights series presents a variety of new essays on the American writer. For readers who are studying McCarthy for the first time, a biographical sketch relates the details of his life and four essays survey the critical reception of McCarthy's work, explore its cultural and historical contexts, situate McCarthy among his contemporaries, and review key themes in his work. Readers seeking a deeper understanding of the writer can then move on to other essays that explore topics like McCarthy's symbolism; his portrayals of religion, of mysticism, and of violence; the question of the division between a "Western" and a "Southern" novel; and McCarthy's depiction of character, as he portrays individuals caught up in situations for which they, never mind society, often have no good solution. Works discussed include The Orchard Keeper; The Crossing; No Country for Old Men; Blood Meridian; All The Pretty Horses; and The Road.

Contents:

Career, life, and influence. On Cormac McCarthy / David N. Cremean; Biography of Cormac McCarthy / Carole Juge

Critical contexts. Cormac McCarthy's critical reception / Ronja Vieth; Through a trauma theory lens: McCarthy's violence reconsidered / Christine Shearer-Cremean; Cormac McCarthy's cultural and historical contexts / Ciaran Dowd; Fact and fiction: perspectives on the Borderlands from Cormac McCarthy and Charles Bowden / Robert Headley

Critical Readings. Cormac McCarthy's Southern novels / Will Brannon; All the pretty Westerns: McCarthy lights out (for) the territories / David N. Cremean; "The ugly fact": authorial intent, textual criticism, and the McCarthy papers / Andrew Husband; Cormac McCarthy's dramas and screenplays / Stacey Peebles; Adapting McCarthy to film / Cynthia J. Miller; Gender in McCarthy's fiction / Nell Sullivan; Cormac McCarthy: a scientific bent / Rick Wallach; "I wont tell you you can save yourself because you cant": the western formula and the removal of the hero in No country for old men and Blood meridian / Nicholas Lawrence; "The day is made of what has come before": determinism and ineffective choice in Cormac McCarthy's Border trilogy / John Ferer; Morels and morals: hope in the postapocalyptic The road / Anne Coyle; Still at the center: McCarthian mysticism / David N. Cremean

Resources: Chronology of Cormac McCarthy's life; Works by Cormac McCarthy

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 314-316) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781283803717

1283803712

9781429837736

142983773X

OCLC:

816656092