Cormac McCarthy: New Directions

Contents
Contributors
Introduction: “There Was Map Enough for Men to Read”: Storytelling, the Border Trilogy, and New Directions • James D. Lilley
History and the Ugly Facts of Blood Meridian • Dana Phillips
The Lay of the Land in Cormac McCarthy’s Appalachia • K. Wesley Berry
The Sacred Hunter and the Eucharist of the Wilderness: Mythic Reconstructions in Blood Meridian • Sara Spurgeon
History, Bloodshed, and the Spectacle of American Identity in Blood Meridian • Adam Parkes
Abjection and “the Feminine” in Outer Dark • Ann Fisher-Wirth
All the Pretty Mexicos: Cormac McCarthy’s Mexican Representations • Daniel Cooper Alarcón
“Blood is Blood”: All the Pretty Horses in the Multicultural Literature Class • Timothy P. Caron
The Cave of Oblivion: Platonic Mythology in Child of God • Dianne C. Luce
From Beowulf to Blood Meridian: Cormac McCarthy’s Demystification of the Martial Code • Rick Wallach
McCarthy and the Sacred: A Reading of The Crossing • Edwin T. Arnold
“See the Child”: The Melancholy Subtext of Blood Meridian • George Guillemin
Leaving the Dark Night of the Lie: A Kristevan Reading of Cormac McCarthy’s Border Fiction • Linda Townley Woodson
“Hallucinated Recollections”: Narrative as Spatialized Perception of History in The Orchard Keeper • Matthew R. Horton
Cormac McCarthy’s Sense of an Ending: Serialized Narrative and Revision in Cities of the Plain • Robert L. Jarrett
Index