Editor's introduction: beyond reckoning (Chris Eagle) -- "Cloaca Maxima": conceptualizing matter in Cormac McCarthy's southern fiction (Julius Greve) -- The cave of oblivion: platonic mythology in Child of God (Dianne C. Luce) -- "The ruined shack": language and being-at-home in Heidegger and McCarthy's Outer dark (Robert Metcalf) -- Literature and death: McCarthy, Blanchot, and Suttree's mortal belonging ( Patrick O'Connor) -- Heraclitus and the metaphysics of war in Blood meridian (Ian Alexander Moore) -- Borders, landscapes, and the earth: eco-phenomenology and All the pretty horses (Zachary Tavlin) -- "The lighted display case": a Nietzschean reading of Cormac McCarthy's Border fiction (Linda Woodson) -- "For the other only": the radical existentialism of the priest's tale in The crossing (Jenny Bryant and Robert Bernasconi) -- Narrative disruption as animal agency in Cormac McCarthy's The crossing (Raymond Malewitz) -- Fantasy and the expiration of nature: The road as film (Ryan Drake) -- Seeing nothing: making phenomenological sense of the counterspectacle in McCarthy's The road (Yuliya A.Tsutserova) -- Nowhere between river and road: a Nagelian reading of Suttree and The road (Alberto L. Siani).
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