Fall 1999
Volume XXV No. 1 (Fall 1999)
| Editors' Page | iv |
| Guest Editor’s Introduction: Turning Pages Rick Wallach |
5 |
Articles
| Titles | Page Number |
|---|---|
| Female Presence, Male Violence, and the Art of Artlessness in Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy Patrick W. Shaw |
11 |
| From Mutilation to Penetration: Cycles of Conquest in Blood Meridian and All the Pretty Horses Molly McBride |
24 |
| “That immense and bloodslaked waste”: Negation in Blood Meridian Brady Harrison |
35 |
| “I aint come back rich, that’s for sure” or The Questioning of Market Economies in Cormac McCarthy’s Novels Christine Chollier |
43 |
| The Trapper Mystic: Werewolves in The Crossing S. K. Robisch |
50 |
| Chess in the Border Trilogy Marty Priola |
55 |
| “Doomed Enterprises”: McCarthy’s Mexican Representations Daniel Cooper Alarcón |
58 |
| “Mexico para los Mexicanos”: Revolution, Mexico, and McCarthy’s Border Trilogy John Wegner |
67 |
| The Last Stage of the Hero’s Evolution: Cormac McCarthy’s Cities of the Plain Charles Bailey |
74 |
| Blood in the Tracks: Catholic Postmodernism in The Crossing Jason Ambrosiano |
83 |
| The Myth that Loses, the Truth that Wins James M. Rawley |
92 |
| “Lo fantástico”: The Influence of Borges and Cortázar on the Epilogue of Cities of the Plain Stacey Peebles |
105 |
| The Process of Elimination: Tracing the Prodigal’s Irrevocable Passage through Cormac McCarthy’s Southern and Western Novels John Vanderheide |
110 |
| Art, Authenticity, and Social Transgression in Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses Brock Clarke |
117 |
| “A Certain but Fugitive Testimony”: Witnessing the Light of Time in Cormac McCarthy’s Southwestern Fiction John Beck |
124 |
| Contributors | 133 |