Cormac McCarthy
By: editor, David N. Cremean
Series: Critical insights
Publisher: Salem Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Ipswich, Mass
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9781429837255; 9781429837736
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Career, life, and influence. On Cormac McCarthy / David N. Cremean; Biography of Cormac McCarthy / Carole Juge; title: 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; title: 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; title: Resources: Chronology of Cormac McCarthy's life; Works by Cormac McCarthy