Cormac McCarthy (born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr.; July 20, 1933 – June 13, 2023) was an American writer who authored twelve novels, two plays, five screenplays, and three short stories, spanning the Western and postapocalyptic genres. He was known for his graphic depictions of violence and his unique writing style, recognizable by a sparse use of punctuation and attribution. McCarthy is widely regarded as one of the greatest American novelists. (Information from Wikipedia)
Personal Website: www.cormacmccarthy.com/
Articles in Western American Literature:
“He’s a Ghost. But He’s Out There”: Borderlands Science Fiction and the Gothic in No Country for Old Men by Micah K. Donohue
All the Pretty Mexican Girls: Whiteness and Racial Desire in Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses and Cities of the Plain, by Jennifer A. Reimer
A Chaotic and Dark Vitalism: A Case Study of Cormac McCarthy’s Psychopaths amid a Geology of Immorals, by Sean Braune
“What manner of heretic?”: Demons in McCarthy and the Question of Agency, by J. A. Bernstein
Narrative, Being, and the Dialogic Novel: The Problem of Discourse and Language in Cormac McCarthy’s The Crossing, by Alan Noble
“Plenty of signs and wonders to make a landscape”: Space, Place, and Identity in Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy, by Ashley Bourne
Disappearance in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, by Phillip A. Snyder
“In a time before nomenclature was and each was all”: Blood Meridian‘s Neomythic West and the Heterotopian Zone, by David Holmberg
Against Nostalgia: Turning The Page of Cormac McCarthy’s Cities of the Plain, by Trenton Hickman
All the Pretty Horses: Cormac McCarthy’s Reading of For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Dennis Cutchins
Pledged In Blood: Truth and Redemption in Cormac McCarthy’s All The Pretty Horses, Sara L. Spurgeon
Writing On: Blood Meridian As Devisionary Western, by Jonathan Pitts
They Rode On”: Blood Meridian and the Art of Narrative, by Bernard A. Schopen
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