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Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy » Read Now
by Edwin T. Arnold, Dianne C. Luce. 258 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

A revised edition of a volume praised as the best handbook for an understanding of McCarthy's great works.
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McCarthy, Mac Airt and Mythology: Suttree and the Irish High King, in The Mississippi Quarterly » Read Now
by James Potts. 15 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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Redemption as Language in Cormac McCarthy's Suttree, in Christianity and Literature » Read Now
by John Rothfork. 13 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library
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A "Bloody Dark Pastryman": Cormac McCarthy's Recipe for Gunpowder and Historical Fiction in 'Blood Meridian,' in The Mississippi Quarterly » Read Now
by John Emil Sepich. 16 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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A Question of Class: The Redneck Stereotype in Southern Fiction (Chap. 16 "Cormac McCarthy: The Dispossessed as Naked Ape") » Read Now
by Duane Carr. 188 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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The Modern American Novel of Violence ("Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian" begins on p. 132) » Read Now
by Patrick W. Shaw. 220 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

"An addendum to W. M. Frohock's 'The Novel of Violence in America, 1920-1950' (1950), Shaw's volume further defines violence and provides lengthy essays on a novel by each of eight authors not covered by Frohock—Porter, Capote. Vonnegut, Doctorow, McCarthy, Morrison, Selby, and Ellis. . . ...
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"An addendum to W. M. Frohock's 'The Novel of Violence in America, 1920-1950' (1950), Shaw's volume further defines violence and provides lengthy essays on a novel by each of eight authors not covered by Frohock—Porter, Capote. Vonnegut, Doctorow, McCarthy, Morrison, Selby, and Ellis. . . . Students and scholars dealing with any of the writers Shaw covers will appreciate his detailed essays on specific novels. Recommended for libraries supporting coursework in the modern novel at the upper-division undergraduate level and above."—Choice
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Blood & Grace: The Fiction of Cormac McCarthy, in Commonweal » Read Now
by Edwin T. Arnold. 5 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library
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Cormac McCarthy's Bizarre Genius: A Reclusive Master of Language and the Picaresque, on a Roll, in The Atlantic Monthly » Read Now
by John W. Aldridge. 8 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library
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Listening to the Page: Adventures in Reading and Writing (Chap. 17 "A Note on Landscape in All the Pretty Horses") » Read Now
by Alan Cheuse. 290 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

When he sold his first short story to The New Yorker in 1979, Alan Cheuse was hardly new to the literary world. He had studied at Rutgers under John Ciardi, worked at the Breadloaf Writing Workshops with Robert Frost and Ralph Ellison, written hundreds of reviews for Kirkus Reviews, and taught...
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When he sold his first short story to The New Yorker in 1979, Alan Cheuse was hardly new to the literary world. He had studied at Rutgers under John Ciardi, worked at the Breadloaf Writing Workshops with Robert Frost and Ralph Ellison, written hundreds of reviews for Kirkus Reviews, and taught alongside John Gardner and Bernard Malamud at Bennington College for nearly a decade. Soon after the New Yorker story appeared, Cheuse wrote a freelance magazine piece about a new, publicly funded broadcast network called National Public Radio, and a relationship of reviewer and radio was born. In Listening to the Page, Alan Cheuse takes a look back at some of the thousands of books he has read, reviewed, and loved, offering retrospective pieces on modern American literary figures such as Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, Bernard Malamud, and John Steinbeck, as well as contemporary writers like Elizabeth Tallent and Vassily Aksyonov. Other essays explore landscape in All the Pretty Horses, the career of James Agee, Mario Vargas Llosa and naturalism, and the life and work of Robert Penn Warren.
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American Encounters: Greater Mexico, the United States, and the Erotics of Culture (Discussion of Cormac McCarthy begins on p. 193) » Read Now
by José E. Limón. 251 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Award-winning anthropologist Jose Limon looks into history, politics, literature, folklore, ethnography, biography, film, song, & dance to prone the deeply entwined & ambivalent relationship between both sides of the border over the last 150 years. The idea of crossing the Rio Grande between the...
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Award-winning anthropologist Jose Limon looks into history, politics, literature, folklore, ethnography, biography, film, song, & dance to prone the deeply entwined & ambivalent relationship between both sides of the border over the last 150 years. The idea of crossing the Rio Grande between the U.S. & Mexico has always conjured images of racial hostility & exclusion. And today these images include stories of immigrant drownings, drug killings, & toxic waste. Limon's analysis engages us in the political, popular, & cultural dimension of the border & offers hope for the future.
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