Series page

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The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy - Half title page

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The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy - Title page

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Copyright page

pp vi-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

Figures

pp ix-x

Contributors

pp xi-xiv

Acknowledgments

pp xv-xvi

Chronology of McCarthy’s Life and Works

pp xvii-xxii

Introduction

pp 1-12

1 - Histories, Novels, Ideas:

pp 3-12

Part I - Influence and Innovation

pp 13-38

2 - McCarthy’s Heroes and the Will to Truth

pp 15-26

3 - Modernism, Postmodernism, and Language:

pp 27-38

Part II - Beginnings in the American South

pp 39-64

4 - McCarthy, Tennessee, and the Southern Gothic

pp 41-53

5 - McCarthy and the Uses of Philosophy in the Tennessee Novels

pp 54-64

Part III - The Move Westward

pp 65-92

6 - History and the Problem of Evil in McCarthy’s Western Novels

pp 67-78

7 - The Border Trilogy,The Road, and the Cold War

pp 79-92

Part IV - The Novels

pp 93-146

8 - Outer Darkand Romantic Naturalism

pp 95-106

9 - Blood Meridianand the Poetics of Violence

pp 107-120

10 - All the Pretty Horses,the Border, and Ethnic Encounter

pp 121-132

11 - The Quest for God inThe Road

pp 133-146

Part V - Themes and Issues

pp 147-188

12 - McCarthy and Literary Naturalism

pp 149-161

13 - McCarthy and Film

pp 162-174

14 - McCarthy’s Heroes:

pp 175-188