Cormac McCarthy : new directions
(Book)

Introduction: "There was map enough for men to read": storytelling, the Border trilogy, and New directions / James D. Lilley

History and the ugly facts of Blood meridian / Dana Phillips

The lay of the land in Cormac McCarthy's Appalachia / K. Wesley Berry

The sacred hunter and the eucharist of the wilderness: mythic reconstructions in Blood meridian / Sara Spurgeon

History, bloodshed, and the spectacle of American identity in Blood meridian / Adam Parkes

Abjection and "the feminine" in Outer dark / Ann Fisher-Wirth

All the pretty Mexicos: Cormac McCarthy's Mexican representations / Daniel Cooper Alarcón

"Blood is blood": All the pretty horses in the multicultural literature class / Timothy P. Caron

The cave of oblivion: platonic mythology in Child of God / Dianne C. Luce

From Beowulf to Blood meridian: Cormac McCarthy's demystification of the martial code / Rick Wallach

McCarthy and the sacred: a reading of The crossing / Edwin T. Arnold

"See the child": the melancholy subtext of Blood meridian / George Guillemin

Leaving the dark night of the lie: a Kristevan reading of Cormac McCarthy's border fiction / Linda Townley Woodson

"Hallucinated recollections": narrative as spatialized perception of history in The orchard keeper / Matthew R. Horton

Cormac McCarthy's sense of an ending: serialized narrative and revision in Cities of the plain / Robert L. Jarrett.