Michael Lynn Crews

Books Are Made Out of Books

A Guide to Cormac McCarthy's Literary Influences

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Produktbeschreibung

A new edition of this groundbreaking exploration of Cormac McCarthy's literary archive, which identifies over 150 writers and thinkers who influenced McCarthy, now including analysis of McCarthy's final works.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781477330845
• ISBN-10: 1477330844
• Artikelnr.: 70539704

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Michael Lynn Crews

Inhaltsangabe

1. Acknowledgments
2. Chapter 1. Introduction: Books Out of Books
* T Is for Texas, T Is for Tennessee: Cormac McCarthy’s Literary
Journey
* The Wittliff Collection
* Literary Influence and the Novels of Cormac McCarthy
3. Chapter 2. The Orchard Keeper
* Faulkner, William (1897–1962) [See also The Stonemason]
* Frost, Robert (1874–1963) [See also The Road]
* Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804–1864
4. Chapter 3. Outer Dark
* Camus, Albert (1913–1960) [See also Whales and Men
5. Chapter 4. Child of God
* Hitchcock, Alfred (1899–1980)
6. Chapter 5. The Gardener’s Son
* Bealer, Alex (1921–1980)
* Christian, William (b. 1944)
* Dawley, Thomas Robinson (1862–1930)
* Ginsberg, Allen (1926–1997)
* Gurdjieff, George (1866–1949)
* Huxley, Aldous (1894–1963)
* Joyce, James (1882–1941) [See also Suttree; in addition, see entries
for Joseph Gerard Brennan and Peter De Vries in Suttree]
* McLaurin, Melton Alonza (b. 1941)
* Rapoport, Amos (b. 1929
7. Chapter 6. Suttree
* Abbey, Edward (1927–1989)
* Agee, James (1909–1955)
* Algren, Nelson (1909–1981)
* Bellow, Saul (1915–2005)
* Beowulf (ca. eighth century) [See also Blood Meridian]
* Brennan, Joseph Gerard (1910–2004)
* Brown, Christy (1932–1981)
* Cooke, Ebenezer (ca. 1667–ca. 1732)
* Dante Alighieri (1265–1321)
* Davidson, Donald (1893–1968)
* De Vries, Peter (1910–1993)
* Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns) (1888–1965) [See also The Road]
* Ericson, Eric B. (dates unknown), and Goesta Wollin (1912–1995)
* Farrell, James T. (1904–1979)
* Flaubert, Gustave (1821–1880)
* Foucault, Michel (1926–1984)
* Graves, Robert (1895–1985)
* Hoagland, Edward (b. 1932)
* Hunting in the Old South: Original Narratives of the Hunters (1967)
* Joyce, James (1882–1941) [See also The Gardener’s Son; in addition,
see entries for Joseph Gerard Brennan and Peter De Vries in this
chapter]
* Jung, Carl Gustav (1875–1961) [See also entry for Tabula Smaragdina
in this chapter]
* Koestler, Arthur (1905–1983)
* Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi di (1896–1957)
* Lewis, Wyndham (1882–1957)
* Lissner, Ivar (1909–1967)
* Mailer, Norman (1923–2007)
* The Malleus Maleficarum (1487)
* Maryland: A Guide to the Old Line State (1940)
* Massinger, Philip (1583–1640)
* Melville, Herman (1818–1891) [See also The Stonemason and Whales and
Men]
* Miller, Henry (1891–1980) [See also Correspondence]
* Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de (1533–1592) [See also Whales and Men] 000
* Nordau, Max (1849–1923)
* Pater, Walter (1839–1894)
* Poe, Edgar Allan (1809–1849)
* Shakespeare, William (1564–1616) [See also Blood Meridian and The
Road]
* Spengler, Oswald (1880–1936) [See also The Road; in addition, see
entry for Wyndham Lewis in Suttree]
* Steele, Wilbur Daniel (1886–1970)
* Steinbeck, John (1902–1968)
* Stephenson, Carl (1893–1954)
* Tabula Smaragdina [See also entry for Carl Gustav Jung in this
chapter]
* Thompson, Francis (1859–1907)
* Trumbo, Dalton (1905–1976)
* West, Nathanael (1903–1940)
* Weston, Jessie L. (1850–1928)
* Wolfe, Thomas (1900–1938)
* Xenophanes (ca. 570–ca. 478 BCE) [See also Heraclitus in Blood
Meridian]
8. Chapter 7. Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
* Beowulf (ca. eighth century) [See also Suttree]
* Boehme, Jacob (1575–1624) [See also Eugen Herrigel in this chapter]
* Celine, Louis-Ferdinand (1894–1961)
* Chaucer, Geoffrey (1343–1400)
* Collinson, Frank (1855–1943)
* Conrad, Joseph (1857–1924)
* Dillard, Annie (b. 1945)
* Dobie, J. Frank (1888–1964)
* Doughty, Charles Montagu (1843–1926)
* Durant, Will (1885–1981)
* Fraser, Julius Thomas (1923–2010)
* Gard, Wayne (1899–1986)
* Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749–1832)
* Heller, Joseph (1923–1999)
* Heraclitus (ca. 535–ca. 475 BCE)
* Herrigel, Eugen (1884–1955) [See also Jacob Boehme in this chapter]
* James, William (1842–1910)
* Kierkegaard, Søren (1813–1855)
* Kinnell, Galway (1927–2014)
* Krutch, Joseph Wood (1893–1970)
* McGinniss, Joe (1942–2014)
* Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844–1900)
* O’Brien, Tim (b. 1946)
* O’Connor, Mary Flannery (1925–1964)
* Pirsig, Robert M. (b. 1928) [See also The Road]
* Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David) (1919–2010)
* Shakespeare, William (1564–1616) [See also Suttree and The Road]
* Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950)
* Tolstoy, Leo (1828–1910)
* Valéry, Paul (1871–1945)
* Whitehead, Alfred North (1861–1947)
* Wolfe, Tom (b. 1931)
9. Chapter 8. The Stonemason
* Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106–43 BCE)
* Faulkner, William (1897–1962) [See also The Orchard Keeper]
* Frankl, Paul (1878–1962)
* Gaines, Ernest J. (b. 1933)
* Galsworthy, John (1867–1933)
* Genovese, Eugene (1930–2012)
* Gould, Robert Freke (1836–1915)
* Herbert, Edward (1583–1648)
* Langley, Batty (1696–1751)
* Lesy, Michael (b. 1945)
* Melville, Herman (1819–1891) [See also Suttree and Whales and Men]
* Northrop, Filmer Stuart Cuckow (1893–1992)
* Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875–1926)
* Rosengarten, Theodore (b. 1944)
* Rykwert, Joseph (b. 1926)
10. Chapter 9. The Crossing
* Gandia, Manuel Zeno (1855–1930)
* Leopold, Aldo (1887–1948)
11. Chapter 10. Cities of the Plain
* Artemidorus (second century CE)
* Bell, John Stewart (1928–1990)
* Kanner, Leo (1894–1981)
* Thorndike, Lynn (1882–1965)
* Williams, James Robert (1888–1957)
12. Chapter 11. The Road
* Beckett, Samuel (1906–1989)
* Defoe, Daniel (1660–1731)
* Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns) (1888–1965) [See also Suttree]
* Frost, Robert (1874–1963) [See also The Orchard Keeper]
* Kierkegaard, Søren (1813–1855) [See also Blood Meridian]
* London, Jack (1876–1916)
* Markson, David (1927–2010)
* Martin, Paul
* Ovsyanikov, Nikita
* Pagels, Heinz (1939–1988)
* Pirsig, Robert M. (b. 1928) [See also Blood Meridian]
* Shakespeare, William (1564–1616) [See also Suttree and Blood Meridian
]
* Twain, Mark (Samuel Langhorne Clemens--1835–1910)
13. Chapter 12. Whales and Men
* Arendt, Hannah (1906–1975)
* Augustine of Hippo (354–430)
* Beston, Henry (1888–1968)
* Borges, Jorge Luis (1899–1986)
* Camus, Albert (1913–1960) [See also Outer Dark]
* Cervantes, Miguel de (1547–1616)
* Dyson, Freeman (b. 1923)
* Hemingway, Ernest (1899–1961)
* Hoffer, Eric (1898–1983)
* Hyde, Douglas (1860–1949)
* Jeffers, Robinson (1887–1962)
* Lopez, Barry Holstun (b. 1945)
* Melville, Herman (1819–1891) [See also Suttree and The Stonemason]
* Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de (1533–1592) [See also Suttree]
* Moore, George Augustus (1852–1933)
* Mowat, Farley (1921–2014)
* Pound, Ezra (1885–1972)
* Taylor, Gordon Rattray (1911–1981)
* Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre (1881–1955)
* Thomas, Dylan (1914–1953)
* Yeats, William Butler (1865–1939)
14. Chapter 13. Correspondence
* Brinnin, John Malcolm (1916–1998)
* Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788–1824)
* Chatwin, Bruce (1940–1989)
* Clarke, Arthur C. (1917–2008)
* Davenport, Guy (1927–2005)
* Graves, John (b. 1920)
* Hansen, Ron (b. 1947)
* Hardy, Thomas (1840–1928)
* Kundera, Milan (b. 1929)
* Leone, Sergio (1929–1989)
* Lowry, Malcolm (1909–1957)
* McGuane, Thomas (b. 1939)
* Miller, Henry (1891–1980) [See also Suttree]
* Ondaatje, Michael (b. 1943)
* Scarry, Elaine (b. 1946)
15. Chapter 14. The Passenger
* Céline, Louis-Ferdinand (1894–1961) [See also Blood Meridian]
* Cioran, E.¿M. (1911–1995)
* Dillard, Annie (b. 1945) [See also Blood Meridian]
* Fielding, Henry (1707–1754)
* Ginsberg, Allen (1926–1997) [See also The Gardener’s Son]
* Jeffers, Robinson (1887–1962) [See also Whales and Men]
* Merton, Thomas (1915–1968)
* Poe, Edgar Allan (1809–1849) [See also Suttree]
* Sacher-Masoch, Leopold von (1836–1895) / Marquis de Sade (1740–1814)
* Schopenhauer, Arthur (1788–1860)
* Thomas, Dylan (1914–1953) [See also Whales and Men]
* Waugh, Evelyn (1903–1966)
* Wilson, Edward O. (1929–2021)
16. Notes
17. Bibliography
18. Index