1st Edition

Intertextual and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cormac McCarthy Borders and Crossings

Edited By Nicholas Monk Copyright 2012
208 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

Preface Rick Wallach  Acknowledgments   Introduction Nicholas Monk  1. Blood Meridian and Classical Greek Thought David Williams  2. The Ties that Bind: Intertextual Links between All the Pretty Horses and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Megan McGilchrist  3. Cormac McCarthy and the American Literary Tradition: Wording the End" Jan Nordby Gretlund  4. Cormac McCarthy’s House Peter Josyph  5. The Painterly Eye: Waterscapes in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road Dianne C. Luce  6. The Silent Sheriff: No Country for Old Men: A Comparison of Novel and Film John Cant  7. A Namelessness Wheeling in the Night: Shapes of Evil in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian and John Carpenter’s Halloween Michael Madsen  8. ‘A Novel in Dramatic Form’: Metaphysical Tension in The Sunset Limited" Ciarán Dowd  9. Believing in The Sunset Limited: A Talk with Tom Cornford on Directing McCarthy Tom Cornford and Peter Josyph  10. Cold Dimensions, Little Worlds: Self, Death, and Motion in Suttree and Beckett's Murphy Euan Gallivan  11. From Blood Meridian to Blue Meridian John Ferer  12. Versions of the Seeleroman: Cormac McCarthy and Leslie Silko Nicholas Monk  Index

Biography

Dr. Nicholas Monk is a Research Fellow at the University of Warwick. He has previously published and given conference papers on both Cormac McCarthy and Native American literature. His recent work includes a book on pedagogy and an article on the use of theatre in teaching.

Rick Wallach is Secretary-Treasurer of the Cormac McCarthy Society.

"Intertextual and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cormac McCarthy: Borders and Crossings represents an important contribution to Cormac McCarthy scholarship. The diversity of these essays mirrors the maturation and expansion of McCarthy scholarship…the project provides a blueprint for future critical scholarship in McCarthy studies." –William Brannon, Cormac McCarthy Studies