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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Acknowledgments
- 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
- 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
- Chapter 3. Outer Dark
- Camus, Albert (1913–1960) [See also Whales and Men
- Chapter 4. Child of God
- Hitchcock, Alfred (1899–1980)
- 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
- 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]
- 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)
- 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)
- Chapter 9. The Crossing
- Gandia, Manuel Zeno (1855–1930)
- Leopold, Aldo (1887–1948)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
