Cormac McCarthy: New Directions

Contents

v Contributors vii Introduction: “There Was Map Enough for Men to Read”: Storytelling, the Border Trilogy, and New Directions James D. Lilley 1 History and the Ugly Facts of Blood Meridian Dana Phillips 17 The Lay of the Land in Cormac McCarthy’s Appalachia K. Wesley Berry 47 The Sacred Hunter and the Eucharist of the Wilderness: Mythic Reconstructions in Blood Meridian Sara Spurgeon 75 History, Bloodshed, and the Spectacle of American Identity in Blood Meridian Adam Parkes 103 Abjection and “the Feminine” in Outer Dark Ann Fisher-Wirth 125 All the Pretty Mexicos: Cormac McCarthy’s Mexican Representations Daniel Cooper Alarcón 141 C O N T E N T S vi : Contents “Blood is Blood”: All the Pretty Horses in the Multicultural Literature Class Timothy P. Caron 153 The Cave of Oblivion: Platonic Mythology in Child of God Dianne C. Luce 171 From Beowulf to Blood Meridian: Cormac McCarthy’s Demystification of the Martial Code Rick Wallach 199 McCarthy and the Sacred: A Reading of The Crossing Edwin T. Arnold 215 “See the Child”: The Melancholy Subtext of Blood Meridian George Guillemin 239 Leaving the Dark Night of the Lie: A Kristevan Reading of Cormac McCarthy’s Border Fiction Linda Townley Woodson 267 “Hallucinated Recollections”: Narrative as Spatialized Perception of History in The Orchard Keeper Matthew R. Horton 285 Cormac McCarthy’s Sense of an Ending: Serialized Narrative and Revision in Cities of the Plain Robert L. Jarrett 313 Index 343 ...