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Book SynopsisThis collection of McCarthy criticism anthologizes several of the most prescient early responses to an author who disturbed many when he first emerged, as well as biographical sketches, examinations of his dramatic scripts and his early unpublished stories.
Table of ContentsEditor's introduction : Cormac McCarthy's canon as accidental artifact - Rick Wallach
1 A writer's view of Cormac McCarthy - Madison Smart Bell
Part I: The Appalachian works
2 Prefiguring Cormac McCarthy : the early short stories - Rick Wallach
3 'They aint the thing' : artifact and hallucinated recollection in Cormac McCarthy's early frame-works - Dianne C. Luce
4 'Like something seen through bad glass' : narrative strategies in The orchard keeper - William Prather
5 Imposition and resistance in The orchard keeper - Barbara Brickman
6 The evolution of the dead girlfriend motif in Outer dark and Child of God - Nell Sullivan
7 'He's hell when he's well' : Cormac McCarthy's rhyming dictions - Terri Witek
8 Detailing the wor(l)d in Suttree - Béatrice Trotignon
9 The seventh direction, or Suttree's vision quest - William C. Spencer
10 Ruder forms survive : Cormac McCarthy's atavistic vision - Matthew Guinn
Part II: A detour into drama
11 Older professions : the fourth wall of The stonemason - Peter Josyph
12 Cormac McCarthy's The stonemason : the unmaking of a play - Edwin T. Arnold
Part III: From East to West
13 McCarthy music - Jay Ellis
'14 I aint come back rich, that's for sure,' or the questioning of market economies in Cormac McCarthy's novels - Christine Chollier
15 The process of elimination : tracing the prodigal's irrevocable passage through Cormac McCarthy's southern and western novels - John Vanderheide
Part IV: The Border tetralogy
16 A false book is no book at all' : the ideology of representation in Blood meridian and the Border Trilogy - David Holloway
17 De los herejes y huérfanos : the sound and sense of Cormac McCarthy's border fiction - Linda Townley Woodson
18 'A certain but fugitive testimony' : witnessing the light of time in Cormac McCarthy's southwestern fiction - John Beck
19 Liberty beyond its proper bounds : Cormac McCarthy's history of the west in Blood meridian - Neil Campbell
20 Into the darkening land, the world to come : Cormac McCarthy's border crossings - Mark Busby
21 'Mexico para los Mexicanos' : revolution, Mexico, and McCarthy's Border Trilogy - John Wegner
22 Female presence, male violence, and the art of artlessness in the Border Trilogy - Patrick W. Shaw
23 Games in the Border Trilogy - Marty Priola
24 'The hands of yet other puppets' : figuring freedom and reading repetition in All the pretty horses - James D. Lilley
25 The trapper mystic : werewolves in The crossing - S.K. Robisch
26 The last stage of the hero's evolution : Cormac McCarthy's Cities of the plain - Charles Bailey
Appendix : Index of character names in the novels - Kyle Kirves.
