Cormac McCarthy

Sara Spurgeon is Assistant Professor of Literatures of the American Southwest, Texas Tech University, USA.

• Series Preface; Introduction, Sara L. Spurgeon (Texas Tech University, USA); Part I: All the Pretty Horses (1991); Introduction; 1. "This is Another Country": The Complex Feminine Presence in All the Pretty Horses, Linda Woodson (The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA); 2. A Case of Maladaptation: All the Pretty Horses, One Rough Ride from National Book Award Winner to Film-Flam David N. Cremean (Black Hills State University; Spearfish, USA); 3. Hang and Rattle: John Grady Cole's Horsebreaking in Typescript, Novel, and Film, Stacey Peebles (University of Houston, USA); Part II: No Country for Old Men (2005); Introduction; 4. "Mercantile Ethics": No Country for Old Men and the Narcocorrido, Stephen Tatum (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA); 5. "Do you see?" Elliptic Levels in No Country for Old Men, Jay Ellis (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA); 6. Evil, Mood, and Reflection in the Coen Brothers' No Country for Old Men, Dan Flory (Montana State University, USA); Part III: The Road (2006); Introduction; 7. "Everything uncoupled from its shoring": Quandaries of Epistemology and Ethics in The Road, Donovan Gwinner (Black Hills State University; Spearfish, USA); 8. "Barren, silent, godless": Ecodisaster and the Post-Abundant Landscape in The Road, Susan Kollin (Montana State University, Bozeman, USA); 9. He Ought Not Have Done It: McCarthy and Apocalypse, Dana Phillips (Towson University, USA); Further Reading; Notes on Contributors; Index.

‘Fascinating and provocative, these essays illuminate what one contributor calls the "terrible beauty" of three of Cormac McCarthy's best-known and more recent "primal fictions." With Sara Spurgeon's elegant introduction, this collection is both a helpful overview and an in-depth, philosophical and cultural exploration of one of the greatest writers in English today.'