''Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy'' is a 1999 collection of essays critiquing the works of
Cormac McCarthy from his first novel, ''
The Orchard Keeper'', originally published in 1965, up through ''
Cities of the Plain'', published in 1998. ''Perspectives'' was edited by Edwin T. Arnold and Diane C Luce. Each editor contributed two essays apiece to the collection of eleven essays.
This book covers all of McCarthy's major works published at that time, with the exception of his 1994 drama ''The Stonemason''.
[Brief Mentions]
" ''American Literature.'' Volume 71, Number 3, p. 616. September 1999. Duke University Press ''Perspectives'' was published in 1999 by
University Press of Mississippi.
Chapters
The introduction and first four chapters of ''Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy'' are provided below:
[
: "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).
]
See also
*Cormac McCarthy bibliography
A list of works by or about Cormac McCarthy, the American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. McCarthy published twelve novels, spanning the Southern Gothic, Western, and post-apocalyptic genres, as well as multiple short-stories, screenpl ...
* List of awards received by Cormac McCarthy
References
External links
*
A Cormac McCarthy Companion
*
Prospects for the Study of Cormac McCarthy
American non-fiction books
Literary criticism
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