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Cormac McCarthy's House: Reading McCarthy Without Walls

Cormac McCarthy's House: Reading McCarthy Without Walls

Peter Josyph

In Cormac McCarthy’s House, author, painter, photographer, and actor-director Peter Josyph draws on a wide range of experience to pose provocative, unexpected questions about McCarthy’s work, how it is achieved, and how it is ...
Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy

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Presents a collection of critical essays about the works of Cormac McCarthy.
Reading Cormac McCarthy

Reading Cormac McCarthy

Willard P. Greenwood

Explores Cormac McCarthy's novels and relates them to current events and popular culture for students and book club members.
The Crossing

The Crossing

Cormac McCarthy

The Crossing forms second part of Cormac McCarthy's critically acclaimed Border Trilogy, that began with All the Pretty Horses and concludes with The Cities of the Plain.
Religion in Cormac McCarthy’s Fiction: Apocryphal Borderlands

Religion in Cormac McCarthy’s Fiction: Apocryphal Borderlands

Manuel Broncano

This book addresses the religious scope of Cormac McCarthy’s fiction, one of the most controversial issues in studies of his work.
The Road

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

The Road is the astonishing post-apocalyptic novel by Cormac McCarthy, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize.A father and his young son walk alone through burned America, heading slowly for the coast.
The Road film tie-in

The Road film tie-in

Cormac McCarthy

By the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Cormac McCarthy's The Road is the story of a father and son walking alone through burned America, heading through the ravaged landscape to the coast.
Cormac McCarthy: American Canticles

Cormac McCarthy: American Canticles

Kenneth Lincoln

Cormac McCarthy offers a shrewd chapter-by-chapter reading, exploring concepts such as the Southern Gothic novel, the Southwest border, faith and suicide, and father-son relationships.
Adventures in Reading Cormac McCarthy

Adventures in Reading Cormac McCarthy

Peter Josyph

In Adventures in Reading Cormac McCarthy, Peter Josyph considers, at length, the author's two masterworks Blood Meridian and Suttree, as well as the novel and film of All the Pretty Horses, McCarthy's play The Stonemason, and his film The ...
Reading the World: Cormac McCarthy's Tennessee Period

Reading the World: Cormac McCarthy's Tennessee Period

Dianne C. Luce

In Reading the World Dianne C. Luce explores the historical and philosophical contexts of Cormac McCarthy s early works crafted during his Tennessee period from 1959 to 1979 to demonstrate how McCarthy integrates literary realism with the ...
Cormac McCarthy: American Canticles

Cormac McCarthy: American Canticles

K. Lincoln

American Canticles K. Lincoln. Cormac McCarthy American Canticles Kenneth Lincoln CORMAC MCCARTHY Copyright © Kenneth Lincoln, 2009. Softcover reprint of.
Cormac McCarthy: A Literary Companion

Cormac McCarthy: A Literary Companion

Erik Hage

"Intended for both the scholar and lay reader of McCarthy's works.
Morality in Cormac McCarthy's Fiction: Souls at Hazard

Morality in Cormac McCarthy's Fiction: Souls at Hazard

Russell M. Hillier

This book argues that McCarthy’s works convey a profound moral vision, and use intertextuality, moral philosophy, and questions of genre to advance that vision.
Cormac McCarthy and the Myth of American Exceptionalism

Cormac McCarthy and the Myth of American Exceptionalism

John Cant

This overview of McCarthy’s published work to date, including: the short stories he published as a student, his novels, stage play and TV film script, locates him as a icocolastic writer, engaged in deconstructing America’s vision of ...
Religion in Cormac McCarthy’s Fiction: Apocryphal Borderlands

Religion in Cormac McCarthy’s Fiction: Apocryphal Borderlands

Manuel Broncano

gnostic analysis still has its gifted partisans, notably Dianne Luce's elegant 2009 study of McCarthy's Appalachian works, Reading the World, and more recently, Australian Petra Mundik's series of essays in Southwestern American Literature.
Feeling bad for the Bad. An Empathetic Reading of Cormac ...

Feeling bad for the Bad. An Empathetic Reading of Cormac ...

Alena Saucke

Alena Saucke. English Alena Saucke Feeling bad for the Bad.An Empathetic Reading of Cormac McCarthy's "Child of God" Seminar paper YOUR KNOWLEDGE HAS VALUE - We will publish your bachelor's. Front Cover.
Arvida

Arvida

Samuel Archibald

A 25000-copy Bestseller in French, Arvida reads like a Proust-obsessed Cormac McCarthy whose muse is a mining town in Quebec.
Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy

Robert L. Jarrett

The book suggests to the informed reader new ways of considering a writer's work.Each volume features: -- A critical, interpretive study and explication of the author's works-- A brief biography of the author-- An accessible chronology ...
Cormac McCarthy’s Borders and Landscapes

Cormac McCarthy’s Borders and Landscapes

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... preceding narrative as the epilogue of Blood Meridian is from its narrative. It is distinct in tone and voice and time and perspective from the novel, raising more questions than answers, and serves as its undesignated epilogue.3 1 Erik Hage,  ...
Dive Deeper: Journeys with Moby-Dick

Dive Deeper: Journeys with Moby-Dick

George Cotkin

1–19; Petra Mundik, “'Striking the Fire Out of the Rock': Gnostic Theology in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian,” South Central Review 26 (Fall, 2009), pp. 72–97. CHAPTER 88 New York Times (May 15, 1949), sec. BR18; (July 3, 1950), p.
The Image of God in an Image Driven Age: Explorations in ...

The Image of God in an Image Driven Age: Explorations in ...

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Theological Reflections on Cormac McCarthy's The Road Christina Bieber Lake God comes before everything. He goes before us on the road, and is always there before us. Henri de Lubac, The Discovery of God Introduction One of my ...
The Ethics and Aesthetics of Vulnerability in Contemporary ...

The Ethics and Aesthetics of Vulnerability in Contemporary ...

Jean-Michel Ganteau

... and Contemporary Narrative Textual Horizons in an Age of Global Risk Edited by Paul Crosthwaite Food and Culture in Contemporary American Fiction Lorna Piatti-Farnell Intertextual and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cormac McCarthy ...
Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction: A ...

Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction: A ...

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The Scene of the Crime is the Crime: The Southern Border and the Representation of Violence in Cormac McCarthy and Don Winslow Casey Shoop True-Crime, Crime Fiction, and Journalism in Mexico Persephone Braham The Novel of ...
The Chronicles of Cormac: Lord of the Wolves

The Chronicles of Cormac: Lord of the Wolves

Malcolm Elliott-Davey

There was a time shrouded in mist and legend, where Cormac, a young Viking warrior from Asgard, had insulted the gods and was banished and forced to rule over a barren land, where his only subjects were wolves.
Philosophical Approaches to Cormac McCarthy: Beyond Reckoning

Philosophical Approaches to Cormac McCarthy: Beyond Reckoning

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Notes 1 Leo Daugherty, “gravers False and True: Blood Meridian as gnostic Tragedy,” The Southern Quarterly 30.4 (1992): 124; Petra Mundik, “This Luminosity in Beings So Endarkened: gnostic Soteriology in Blood Meridian,” in They Rode ...
Joseph R. McCarthy

Joseph R. McCarthy

Allen J. Matusow

Mass Movement In 1967 Michael Paul Rogin published an important book entitled The Intellectuals and McCarthy. Rogin used quantitative techniques to attack those pluralists (or New Conservatives) who contended that McCarthy's support in ...
Ennis in Old Photographs

Ennis in Old Photographs

Sean Spellissy

In 1959 the club had a social in The Queen's Hotel where this photograph was taken. The two men standing, from left to right, are Ralphie Burns and Josie Cronin, while Nancy Guinnane, Patsy McCarthy, Patsy McCarthy and Ciss McCarthy ...

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