Research Catalog

Title

All the pretty horses / edited by Laura Nicosia and James F. Nicosia.

Publication

• Ipswich, MA : Salem Press ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2023]
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

• Nicosia, Laura M.
• Nicosia, James F.

Description

xliii, 241 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

Provides a collection of critical essays on Cormac McCarthy's All the pretty horses.

Series Statement

Critical insights

Uniform Title

Critical insights.

Subject

• McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023
• McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023 > Criticism and interpretation
• McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023
• All the pretty horses (McCarthy, Cormac)
• Western stories > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Literary criticism.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-226) and index.

Contents

About this volume / Laura Nicosia and James F. Nicosia -- All the pretty horses: McCarthy's breakthrough into the American canon / Laura Nicosia and James F. Nicosia -- Cormac McCarthy: a biography / J. Gavin Paul -- All the pretty horses: McCarthy's vision of frontier myths and revolutionary struggles / Melinda Knight -- All the pretty horses alters the reception and prestige of McCarthy / Amy Leshinsky -- Wilderness 2.0: redefining and rewilding wilderness in McCarthy's All the pretty horses / Aaron A. Cloyd - Cooper, McCarthy, and the nineteenth-century roots of All the pretty horses -- "... one thing more of things she lay among": Ecological form in McCarthy's All the pretty horses / Seth Forrest -- Aldo Leopold's land ethic in McCarthy's All the pretty horses / Allison Harl -- The use of polysyndeton and cinematic montage in Faulkner's As I lay dying and McCarthy's All the pretty horses -- The landscape of grief: dispossession and discovery in McCarthy's All the pretty horses and Wolf's To the lighthouse / Elissa Greenwald -- Under the influence: Melville, bloodlines, and McCarthy's All the pretty horses / Stephen Daly -- The cowboy and the American dream: Charting the binaries of the West in McCarthy's All the pretty horses / Shubham Singh -- John Grady Cole as an example of (non)traditional Western masculinity in McCarthy's All the pretty horses / Amanda Zastrow -- The quest for romantic love: the role of women in All the pretty horses / Elissa Greenwald -- Puppets upon puppets upon puppets: Forces at play in the mother's construction in All the pretty horses / Amy Leshinsky - Confronting the Capitalocene: Capitalism, culture, and codes in All the pretty horses / Sakti Sekhar Dash -- Chronology of Cormac McCarthy's life -- Works by Cormac McCarthy -- Bibliography -- About the editors -- Contributors -- Index.

Call Number

JFE 24-1254

ISBN

• 9781637004364
• 1637004362

OCLC

1408766865

Title

All the pretty horses / edited by Laura Nicosia and James F. Nicosia.

Publisher

Ipswich, MA : Salem Press ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2023]

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Critical insights

Critical insights.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-226) and index.

Added Author

Nicosia, Laura M., editor.

Nicosia, James F., editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 24-1254