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