Cormac McCarthy
Subtitle: All the pretty horses, No country for old men, The road
By: edited by Sara L. Spurgeon
Series: Continuum studies in contemporary North American fiction; Continuum studies in contemporary North American fiction
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780826432216; 9780826438201
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Description: This collection of new critical perspectives on three of Cormac McCarthy's most widely-studied novels provides a wide-ranging introduction to the different interpretations of his work. Introductions to each set of essays encourage readers to see connections and contrasts between different approaches.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [190]-205) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Sara L. Spurgeon; title: pt. I. All the pretty horses (1991).; title: "This is another country" :; title: the complex feminine presence in All the pretty horses  -- Linda Woodson; title: Hang and rattle :; title: John Grady Cole's horsebreaking in typescript, novel, and film  -- Stacey Peebles; title: McCarthy's multitude(s) :; title: All the pretty horses and los hombres del país  -- Andrew Husband; title: pt. II. No country for old men (2005).; title: "Mercantile ethics" :; title: No country for old men and the narcocoriddo  -- Stephen Tatum; title: "Do you see?" : levels of ellipsis in No country for old men  -- Jay Ellis; title: Evil, mood, and reflection in the Coen brothers' No country for old men  -- Dan Flory; title: pt. III. The road (2006).; title: "Everything uncoupled from its shoring" :; title: quandaries of epistemology and ethics in The road  -- Donovan Gwinner; title: "Barren, silent, godless" :; title: ecodisaster and the post-abundant landscape in The road  -- Susan Kollin; title: "He ought not have done it" :; title: McCarthy and apocalypse -- Dana Phillips.