Myth, legend, dust : critical responses to Cormac McCarthy

Abstract

Part 1 Appalachian works: prefiguring Cormac McCarthy -the early short stories, Rick Wallach they ain't thing -artifacts and hallucinated recollection in Cormac McCarthy's early frame-works, Dianne C. Luce like something seen through bad glass - narrative strategy in The Orchard Keeper, William Prather imposition and resistance in The Orchard Keeper, Barbara Brickman evolution of dead girlfriend motif in Outer Dark and Child of God, Nell Sullivan hell when he's well - Cormac McCarthy's rhyming dictions, Terri Witek detailing wor(l)d in Suttree, Beatrice Trotignon seventh direction, or Suttree's vision quest, William Spencer ruder forms survive - Cormac McCarthy's atavistic vision, Matthew Guinn. Part 2 A detour into drama: older professions - fourth wall of The Stonemason, Peter Josyph Cormac McCarthy's The Stonemason - unmaking of play, Edwin T. Arnold. Part 3 From east to west - shared elements in Appalachian and Southwestern novels: McCarthy music, Jay Ellis I ain't come back rich, that's for sure, or, questioning of market economies in Cormac McCarthy's novels, Christine Chollier process of elimination - tracing prodigal's irrevocable passage through Cormac McCarthy's Southern and Western novels, John Vanderheide. Part 4 border tetralogy: a false book is no book at all - ideology of representation in Blood Meridian and border trilogy, David Holloway de los herejes y huerfanos - sound and sense of Cormac McCarthy's border fiction, Linda Townley Woodson a certain but fugitive testimony - witnessing light of time in Cormac McCarthy's Southwestern fiction, John Beck liberty beyond its proper bounds - Cormac McCarthy's history of West in Blood Meridian, Neil Campbell into darkening land, world to come - Cormac McCarthy's border crossings, Mark Busby para los Mexicanos - revolution, Mexico and McCarthy's border trilogy, John Wegner female presence, male violence and art of artlessness in border trilogy, Patrick W. Shaw games in border trilogy, Marty Priola the hands of yet other puppets - figuring freedom and reading repetition in All Pretty Horses, James D. Lilley trapper mystic -werewolves in The Crossing, S.K. Robisch last stage of hero's evolution - Cities of Plain, Charles Bailey appendix.