Intertextual and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cormac McCarthy
Borders and Crossings
- 192 pages
- English
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About This Book
This collection offers a fresh approach to the work of Cormac McCarthy, one of the most important contemporary American authors. Essays focus on his work across the genres and/or in constellation with other writers and artists, presenting not only a different "angle" on the work, but setting him within a broader literary and artistic context. Such an approach offers a view of McCarthy that is strikingly different to previous collections that have dealt with the work in an almost exclusively "single author" and/or "single genre" mode. McCarthy's novels are increasingly regarded as amongst the most rich, the most complex, and the most insightful of all recent literary responses to prevailing conditions in both the USA and beyond, and this collection recognizes the intertextual and interdisciplinary nature of his work. Contributors draw back the curtain on some of McCarthy's literary ancestors, revealing and analyzing some of the fiction's key contemporary intertexts, and showing a complex and previously underestimated hinterland of influence. In addition, they look beyond the novel both to other genres in McCarthy's oeuvre, and to the way these genres have influenced McCarthy's writing.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Blood Meridian and Classical Greek Thought
- 2. The Ties that Bind: Intertextual Links between All the Pretty Horses and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- 3. Cormac McCarthy and the American Literary Tradition: Wording the End
- 4. Cormac McCarthyâs House
- 5. The Painterly Eye: Waterscapes in Cormac McCarthyâs The Road
- 6. The Silent Sheriff: No Country for Old MenâA Comparison of Novel and Film
- 7. âA Namelessness Wheeling in the Nightâ: Shapes of Evil in Cormac McCarthyâs Blood Meridian and John Carpenterâs Halloween
- 8. âA Novel in Dramatic Formâ: Metaphysical Tension in The Sunset Limited
- 9. Believing in The Sunset Limited: Tom Cornford and Peter Josyph on Directing McCarthy
- 10. Cold Dimensions, Little Worlds: Self, Death, and Motion in Suttree and Beckettâs Murphy
- 11. From Blue to Blood: Jean Toomerâs âBlue Meridianâ and Cormac McCarthyâs Blood Meridian as Intertexts
- 12. Versions of the Seeleroman: Cormac McCarthy and Leslie Silko
- Contributors
- Index