McCarthy, Cormac - Further Reading
FURTHER READING
CRITICISM
Campbell, Neil. “Liberty Beyond Its Proper Bounds: Cormac McCarthy's History of the West in Blood Meridian.” In Myth, Legend, Dust: Critical Responses to Cormac McCarthy, edited by Rich Wallach, pp. 217-26. New York: Manchester University Press, 2000.
Argues that Blood Meridian is a re-conceptualization of the traditional Western as established by Frederick Jackson Turner.
Daugherty, Leo. “Gravers False and True: Blood Meridian as Gnostic Tragedy.” Southern Quarterly 30, no. 4 (summer 1992): 122-33.
Links Gnostic thought to Blood Meridian through an assessment of four characters from the novel.
Jarrett, Robert L. “Rewriting the Southwest: Blood Meridian as a Revisionary Western.” In Cormac McCarthy, pp. 63-93. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1997.
Portrays Blood Meridian as a shift away from the Southern...
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