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Author Crews, Michael Lynn, author

Title Books are made out of books : a guide to Cormac McCarthy's literary influences / Michael Lynn Crews
Edition First edition
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2017
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 332 pages)
Series Southwestern writers collection series, The Wittliff collections at Texas State University
Southwestern Writers Collection series.
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)
Summary 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 Whales and Men, and McCarthy's correspondence. For each work, Crews identifies the authors, artists, or other cultural figures that McCarthy references; gives the source of the reference in McCarthy's papers; provides context for the reference as it appears in the archives; and explains the significance of the reference to the novel or play that McCarthy was working on. This groundbreaking exploration of McCarthy's literary influences, impossible to undertake before the opening of the archive, vastly expands our understanding of how one of America's foremost authors has engaged with the ideas, images, metaphors, and language of other thinkers and made them his own
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-321) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023
SUBJECT McCarthy, Cormac, 1933- fast (OCoLC)fst00088064
McCarthy, Cormac 1933- gnd
Subject LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
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Literatur
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