A great starting point for students seeking an introduction to Cormac McCarthy, this volume discusses McCarthy's life and rise to popularity, the critical responses to his work, and key themes surrounding his works.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
About This Volume.
Career, Life, and Influence.
1: On Cormac Mccarthy.
2: Biography of Cormac McCarthy.
Critical Contexts.
3: Cormac McCarthy's Critical Reception.
4: Through a Trauma Theory Lens: McCarthy's Violence Reconsidered.
5: Cormac McCarthy's Cultural and Historical Contexts.
6: Fact and Fiction: Perspectives on the Borderlands from Cormac McCarthy and Charles Bowden.
Critical Readings.
7: Cormac McCarthy's Southern Novels.
8: All the Pretty Westerns: McCarthy Lights Out for the Territories.
9: “The Ugly Fact”: Authorial Intent, Textual Criticism, and the McCarthy Papers.
10: Cormac McCarthy's Dramas and Screenplays.
11: Adapting McCarthy to Film.
12: Gender in McCarthy's Fiction.
13: Cormac McCarthy: A Scientific Bent.
14: “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.
15: “The Day is Made of what has Come Before”: Determinism and Ineffective Choice in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy.
16: Morels and Morals: Hope in the Postapocalyptic The Road.
