Cormac McCarthy: New Directions

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C O R M A C M C C A R T H Y C O R M A C M C C A R T H Y New Directions Edited by James D. Lilley University of New Mexico Press Albuquerque © 2002 by the University of New Mexico Press All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America First paperbound printing, 2014 Paperbound ISBN: 978-0-8263-2767-3 Electronic ISBN: 978-0-8263-2768-0 18 17 16 15 14 1 2 3 4 5 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Cormac McCarthy : new directions / edited by James D. Lilley.—1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8263-2766-4 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. McCarthy, Cormac, 1933—Criticism and interpretation. 2. MexicanAmerican Border Region—In literature. 3. Southern States—In literature. 4. Tennessee, East—In literature. I. Lilley, James D. (James David), 1971– PS3563.C337 Z63 2002 813’.54—dc21 2001007154 Dana Phillips’ essay, “History and the Ugly Facts of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian,” is reprinted with permission from American Literature, 68:2 (June 1996), 433-60. Copyright 1996, Duke University Press. All rights reserved. An earlier version of the essay “The Lay of the Land in Cormac McCarthy’s Appalachia,” by K. Wesley Berry, was published in The Southern Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 4. An earlier version of the essay “All the Pretty Mexicos: Cormac McCarthy’s Mexican Representations,” by Daniel Cooper Alarcón, was published in Southwestern American Literature, vol. 25, no. 1. An earlier version of the essay “From Beowulf to Blood Meridian: Cormac McCarthy’s Demystification of the Martial Code,” by Rick Wallach, was published in The Southern Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 4. ...