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Critical Insights: All the Pretty Horses

Table of Contents

About This Volume




All the Pretty Horses: McCarthy’s Breakthrough into the American Canon




Cormac McCarthy: A Biography




Critical Contexts



All the Pretty Horses: McCarthy’s Vision of Frontier Myths and Revolutionary Struggles


All the Pretty Horses Alters the Reception and Prestige of McCarthy


Wilderness 2.0: Redefining and Rewilding Wilderness in McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses


Cooper, McCarthy, and the Nineteenth-Century Roots of All the Pretty Horses


Critical Readings



“ . . . one thing more of things she lay among”: Ecological Form in McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses


Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic in McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses


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 Self-Discovery in McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses and Woolf’s To the Lighthouse


Under the Influence: Melville, Bloodlines, and McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses


The Cowboy and the American Dream: Charting the Binaries of the West in McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses


John Grady Cole as an Example of (Non)Traditional Western Masculinity in McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses


The Quest for Romantic Love: The Role of Women in All the Pretty Horses


Puppets Upon Puppets Upon Puppets: Forces at Play in the Mother’s Construction in All the Pretty Horses


Confronting the Capitalocene: Capitalism, Culture, and Codes in All the Pretty Horses


Resources



Chronology of Cormac McCarthy’s Life


Works by Cormac McCarthy


Bibliography


About the Editors


Contributors