Intertextual and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cormac McCarthy

Dr. Nicholas Monk is a Research Fellow at the University of Warwick.　He has previously published and given conference papers on both Cormac McCarthy and Native American literature. His recent work includes a book on pedagogy and an article on the use of theatre in teaching.Rick Wallach is Secretary-Treasurer of the Cormac McCarthy Society.

• Preface Rick Wallach Acknowledgments Introduction Nicholas Monk 1. Blood Meridian and Classical Greek Thought David Williams 2. The Ties that Bind: Intertextual Links between All the Pretty Horses and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Megan McGilchrist 3. Cormac McCarthy and the American Literary Tradition: Wording the End" Jan Nordby Gretlund 4. Cormac McCarthy’s House Peter Josyph 5. The Painterly Eye: Waterscapes in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road Dianne C. Luce 6. The Silent Sheriff: No Country for Old Men: A Comparison of Novel and Film John Cant 7. A Namelessness Wheeling in the Night: Shapes of Evil in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian and John Carpenter’s Halloween Michael Madsen 8. ‘A Novel in Dramatic Form’: Metaphysical Tension in The Sunset Limited" Ciarán Dowd 9. Believing in The Sunset Limited: A Talk with Tom Cornford on Directing McCarthy Tom Cornford and Peter Josyph 10. Cold Dimensions, Little Worlds: Self, Death, and Motion in Suttree and Beckett's Murphy Euan Gallivan 11. From Blood Meridian to Blue Meridian John Ferer 12. Versions of the Seeleroman: Cormac McCarthy and Leslie Silko Nicholas Monk Index

"Intertextual and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cormac McCarthy: Borders and Crossings represents an important contribution to Cormac McCarthy scholarship. The diversity of these essays mirrors the maturation and expansion of McCarthy scholarship…the project provides a blueprint for future critical scholarship in McCarthy studies." –William Brannon, Cormac McCarthy Studies