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Cormac McCarthy and the Myth of American Exceptionalism

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 itself as a nation with an exceptionalist role in the world.

Introductory chapters outline his personal background and the influences on his early years in Tennessee whilst each of his works is dealt with in a separate chapter listed in chronological order of publication.

No Place for Home: Spatial Constraint and Character Flight in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy

This book was written to venture beyond interpretations of Cormac McCarthy''s characters as simple, antinomian, and non-psychological; and of his landscapes as unrelated to the violent arcs of often orphaned and always emotionally isolated and socially detached characters. As McCarthy usually eschews direct indications of psychology, his landscapes allow us to infer much about their motivations.

Cormac Mccarthy: American Canticles

With a thirteen major works over a fifty-year career, one that includes a 2007 Pulitzer Prize, selection for Oprah''s Book Club, and Oscar-winning film adaptations of his novels, Cormac McCarthy is one of America''s best-selling novelists of the South and Southwest. 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. Respected scholar Kenneth Lincoln shows how McCarthy''s canticles of praise, grief, and warning mix classic, biblical, and ballad genres and cross the lyrical with the narrative. Lincoln makes a compelling case that McCarthy is our greatest millennial novelist in a time of heroic challenge and high global stakes.

Animals In The Fiction Of Cormac Mccarthy

The works of Cormac McCarthy have been critically studied as literature of the South and of the Border Southwest. Largely ignored is the omnipresence and presentation of animals in McCarthy''s works. McCarthy''s animals exist within the framework of a fictional natural world driven by biological determinism: Wild animals prey upon feral and domestic animals, horses exist as warriors, and the hunt is a ballet between man and hunting hound. Proximity to humans results in mistreatment and death, while distance results in survival and fitness. The first chapter here examines animal presentations in The Stonemason, The Gardener''s Son and two short stories, ?Bounty? and ?The Dark Waters.? The following nine chapters focus on one text, one type of animal?feline, swine, bovine, bird and bat, canine, equine, lupine, and hound?and one particular thesis. Each chapter also briefly examines the specific animal as it exists in other McCarthy works.

A Cormac Mccarthy Companion: The Border Trilogy

" With essays by Edwin T. Arnold, J. Douglas Canfield, Christine Chollier, George Guillemin, Dianne C. Luce, Jacqueline Scoones, Phillip A. Snyder, Nell Sullivan, and John Wegner"

The completion of Cormac McCarthy''s Border Trilogy--"All the Pretty Horses" (1992), "The Crossing" (1994), and "Cities of the Plain" (1998)--marked a major achievement in American literature. Only ten years earlier this now internationally acclaimed novelist had been called the best unknown writer in America.

The trilogy is McCarthy''s most ambitious project yet, composed at the height of his mature powers over a period of fifteen years. It is "a miracle in prose," as Robert Hass wrote of its middle volume, an unsentimental elegy for the lost world of the cowboy, the passing of the wilderness, and the fading innocence of post--World War II America. The trilogy is a literary accomplishment with wide appeal, for despite the challenging materials in each book, these volumes remained on bestseller lists for many weeks.

This collection of essays is the first book to examine these novels as a trilogy, the first to read them as an integrated whole. Together these explorations of McCarthy''s magnum opus serve as an ideal companion reader.

Represented here are nine of the most notable Cormac McCarthy scholars, both American and European. Their essays provide a substantial exploration of the trilogy from different perspectives. Included are gender issues, eco-critical approaches, explications of the war or land history underlying the trilogy, studies of narrative voice, dreams, the cowboy tradition, and the pastoral tradition, and considerations of McCarthy''s moral and spiritual outlook. These essayscomplement one another in highly provocative ways, prompting new appreciation of the complexity of McCarthy''s work and the profundity of his vision.

Edwin T. Arnold and Dianne C. Luce are editors of "Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy" (University Press of Mississippi). This new volume is an admirable companion to "Perspectives," bringing McCarthy scholarship into the 21st century.

Cormac Mccarthy: American Canticles

With a thirteen major works over a fifty-year career, one that includes a 2007 Pulitzer Prize, selection for Oprah's Book Club, and Oscar-winning film adaptations of his novels, Cormac McCarthy is one of America's best-selling novelists of the South and Southwest. "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. Respected scholar Kenneth Lincoln shows how McCarthy's canticles of praise, grief, and warning mix classic, biblical, and ballad genres and cross the lyrical with the narrative. Lincoln makes a compelling case that McCarthy is our greatest millennial novelist in a time of heroic challenge and high global stakes.

Desire, Violence, And Divinity In Modern Southern Fiction: Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'connor, Cormac Mccarthy, Walker Percy

A Cormac Mccarthy Companion

" With essays by Edwin T. Arnold, J. Douglas Canfield, Christine Chollier, George Guillemin, Dianne C. Luce, Jacqueline Scoones, Phillip A. Snyder, Nell Sullivan, and John Wegner"

The completion of Cormac McCarthy''s Border Trilogy--"All the Pretty Horses" (1992), "The Crossing" (1994), and "Cities of the Plain" (1998)--marked a major achievement in American literature. Only ten years earlier this now internationally acclaimed novelist had been called the best unknown writer in America.

The trilogy is McCarthy''s most ambitious project yet, composed at the height of his mature powers over a period of fifteen years. It is "a miracle in prose," as Robert Hass wrote of its middle volume, an unsentimental elegy for the lost world of the cowboy, the passing of the wilderness, and the fading innocence of post--World War II America. The trilogy is a literary accomplishment with wide appeal, for despite the challenging materials in each book, these volumes remained on bestseller lists for many weeks.

This collection of essays is the first book to examine these novels as a trilogy, the first to read them as an integrated whole. Together these explorations of McCarthy''s magnum opus serve as an ideal companion reader.

Represented here are nine of the most notable Cormac McCarthy scholars, both American and European. Their essays provide a substantial exploration of the trilogy from different perspectives. Included are gender issues, eco-critical approaches, explications of the war or land history underlying the trilogy, studies of narrative voice, dreams, the cowboy tradition, and the pastoral tradition, and considerations of McCarthy''s moral and spiritual outlook. These essayscomplement one another in highly provocative ways, prompting new appreciation of the complexity of McCarthy''s work and the profundity of his vision.

Edwin T. Arnold and Dianne C. Luce are editors of "Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy" (University Press of Mississippi). This new volume is an admirable companion to "Perspectives," bringing McCarthy scholarship into the 21st century.

Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses: A Reader's Guide

This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years from The Remains of the Day to White Teeth. A team of contemporary fiction scholars from both sides of the Atlantic has been assembled to provide a thorough and readable analysis of each of the novels in question.