Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy

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Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy is a collection of essays critiquing the works of Cormac McCarthy from his first novel, The Orchard Keeper, originally published in 1965, up through the Cities of the Plain, his novel that was published in 1998. "Perspectives" editors are Edwin T. Arnold and Diane C Luce. Each editor contributed two essays apiece to this collection of eleven essays. [1] [2] This book covers all of McCarthy's major works except "...the 1994 drama The Stonemason... [3] "Perspectives" was published in 1999 by University Press of Mississippi. [4]

Contents

Book chapters

The the "Introduction" and the first 4 book chapters are delineated below: [4]

Introduction by Edwin T. Arnold and Dianne C. Luce (pp. 1-16).
Values and Structure in The Orchard Keeper by David Paul Ragan. (pp. 17-28).
A Thing Against Which Time Will Not Prevail... by John M. Grammerv(pp. 29-44).
Naming, Knowing and Nothingness: McCarthy’s Moral Parables by Edwin T. Arnold (pp. 45-70).
Cormac McCarthy’s First Screenplay: 'The Gardener’s Son' by Dianne C. Luce (pp. 71-96).

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  3. "Brief Mentions." American Literature. Volume 71, Number 3, p. 616. September 1999. Duke University Press
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