Cormac McCarthy in Context

Part I. Environments: 1. Life and career Steven Frye; 2. The South Scott Yarbrough; 3. The Southwest Lydia Cooper; 4. The Santa Fe Institute Ciaran Dowd; Part II. Literary Contexts: Sources, Influences, Allusions: 5. William Faulkner Jay Watson; 6. Ernest Hemingway Olivia Carr Edenfield; 7. Herman Melville and the American Romance tradition G. R. Thompson; 8. Romanticism Dustin Anderson; 9. Naturalism Adam H. Wood; 10. The Bible Alan Noble; 11. Allusion and allegory Bill Hardwig; Part III. Intellectual Contexts: 12. The Judeo-Christian tradition James Dorson; 13. Gnosticism Benjamin West; 14. Classical and pre-classical philosophy David Williams; 15. Nineteenth and twentieth-century philosophy Julius Greve; 16. Formal aesthetic choices Bryan Vescio; 17. Science and technology Jay Ellis; Part IV. Social and Cultural Contexts: 18. American politics David Holloway; 19. Race and cultural difference John Dudley; 20. Ecology Susan Kollin; 21. Modernity Nicholas Monk; 22. A visual artist on McCarthy Peter Josyph; 23. Cinematic adaptations Lee Clark Mitchell; 24. Cinematic influences Petra Mundik; Part V. Archives, Critical History, Translation: 25. The archives and the Tennessee years, I: The Orchard Keeper and Outer Dark Dianne C. Luce; 26. The archives and the Tennessee years, II: Child of God, The Gardener's Son, and Suttree Dianne C. Luce; 27. The San Marcos archives: Blood Meridian and the West Michael Lynn Crews; 28. Letters and correspondence Katie Salzmann; 29. Critical history Stacey Peebles; 30. Translation and international reception, I Beatrice Trotignon; 31. Translation and international reception, II Beatrice Trotignon.