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Sacred violence : a reader's companion to Cormac McCarthy : selected essays from the first McCarthy Conference, Bellarmine College, Louisville, Kentucky, October 15-17, 1993 / edited by Wade Hall and Rick Wallach.

Title
Sacred violence : a reader's companion to Cormac McCarthy : selected essays from the first McCarthy Conference, Bellarmine College, Louisville, Kentucky, October 15-17, 1993 / edited by Wade Hall and Rick Wallach.
Publication
El Paso : University of Texas at El Paso, 1995.

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Additional Authors
  • Hall, Wade, 1934-2015
  • Wallach, Rick
Description
xxi, 200 p. 23 cm.
Subject
  • McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023 > Criticism and interpretation > Congresses
  • Violence in literature > Congresses
  • Mexican-American Border Region > In literature > Congresses
  • Southern States > In literature > Congresses
  • Tennessee, East > In literature > Congresses
Genre/Form
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-200).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Suttree as window into the soul of Cormac McCarthy / Richard Marius -- Mosaic of McCarthy's fiction / Edwin T. Arnold -- Killer wears the halo : Cormac McCarthy, Flannery O'Connor, and the American religion / Tim Parrish -- McCarthy's wanderers : nomadology, violence, and open country / Brian Evenson -- Human comedy of Cormac McCarthy / Wade Hall -- Landscape of the soul : man and the natural world in The orchard keeper / Natalie Grant -- Cormac McCarthy's unholy trinity : biblical parody in Outer dark / William C. Spencer -- McCarthy's enfant terrible : mimetic desire and sacred violence in Child of God / Gary M. Cuba -- Lester Ballard : McCarthy's challenge to the reader's compassion / John Lang -- Pearls as swine : recentering the marginal in Cormac McCarthy's Suttree / D.S. Butterworth -- Absurd reasoning in an existential world : a consideration of Cormac McCarthy's Suttree / William Prather -- Cormac McCarthy and the text of Jouissance / Nell Sullivan -- Judge Holden, Blood meridian's evil archon / Rick Wallach -- Stylistic variation and cognitive constraint in All the pretty horses / Nancy Kreml -- Deceiving the will to truth : the semiotic foundation of All the pretty horses / Linda Townley Woodson -- "When you wake" : John Grady Cole's heroism in All the pretty horses / Dianne C. Luce -- Blood music : reading Blood meridian / Peter Josyph -- Hero as philosopher and survivor : an afterword on The stonemason and The crossing / Wade Hall.
ISBN
087404233X
LCCN
^^^94061798^
OCLC
  • 33900964
  • SCSB-11682277
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library