Books are made out of books : a guide to Cormac McCarthy's literary influences

Books are made out of books : a guide to Cormac McCarthy's literary influences / Michael Lynn Crews.

Michael Lynn Crews thoroughly mines the archive to identify nearly 150 writers and thinkers that McCarthy himself references in early drafts, marginalia, notes, and correspondence. Crews organizes the references into chapters devoted to McCarthy's published works, the unpublished screenplay Wha...

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Main Author: Crews, Michael Lynn (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Southwestern Writers Collection series.
Subjects:
McCarthy, Cormac, > 1933-2023.
McCarthy, Cormac, > 1933-2023
McCarthy, Cormac > 1933-2023
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
Einfluss
Literatur
Tradition
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • The Orchard Keeper
  • Faulkner, William (1897-1962) [See also The Stonemason]
  • Frost, Robert (1874-1963) [See also The Road]
  • Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804 -1864)
  • Outer Dark
  • Camus, Albert (1913 -1960) [See also Whales and Men]
  • Child of God
  • Hitchcock, Alfred (1899 -1980)
  • 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)
  • 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 (1819 -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]
  • 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 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]
  • 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) [See also Xenophanes in Suttree]
  • Herrigel, Eugen (1884 -1955) [See also Jacob Boehme in this chapter]
  • James, William (1842 -1910)
  • Kierkegaard, Sr̜en (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. (1928 -2017) [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)
  • Valery, Paul (1871 -1945)
  • Whitehead, Alfred North (1861 -1947)
  • Wolfe, Tom (b. 1931)
  • 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)
  • The Crossing
  • Gandia, Manuel Zeno (1855 -1930)
  • Leopold, Aldo (1887 -1948)
  • 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)
  • 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, Soren (1813 -1855) [See also Blood Meridian]
  • London, Jack (1876 -1916)
  • Markson, David (1927
  • 2010)
  • Martin, Paul (b. 1958)
  • Ovsyanikov, Nikita
  • Pagels, Heinz (1939 -1988)
  • Pirsig, Robert M. (1928 -2017) [See also Blood Meridian]
  • Shakespeare, William (1564 -1616) [See also Suttree and Blood Meridian]
  • Twain, Mark (Samuel Langhorne Clemens
  • 1835 -1910)
  • 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)
  • 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 (1920 -2013)
  • 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).

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