Contents
Foreword by Rick Wallach
Introduction by Brad Bannon and John Vanderheide
Chapter 1: Romance and Naturalism in Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses
Chapter 2: “All Things Fought”: Fate, Violence, and the Illusion of a Lockean Social Contract in Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God
Chapter 3: God, Evil, Suffering, and Human Destiny in the Border Trilogy: Learning from the “Teachers”
Chapter 4: Guns and Material Determinism in The Road
Chapter 5: Holden and Chigurh: Cormac McCarthy and the Ethics of Power
Chapter 6: Mysteries of the Meridian Revealed: McCarthy’s Anachronistic Tarot
Chapter 7: Doom’s Adumbration: Suttree and the Problem of Fatalism
Chapter 8: “A Clamorous Tide of Unforeseen Consequence”: Heimarmene in Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy
Chapter 9: Fatal Loss and Technological Blindness in McCarthy’s Tennessee Novels
Chapter 10: Freaking Determinism: The Image of the Wild Man in Blood Meridian
Chapter 11: “Archives of Our Own Devising”: Structural Fatality in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West
Contributors
Index