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Books Are Made Out of Books : A Guide to Cormac Mccarthy's Literary Influences by Michael Lynn Crews (2017, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Texas Press
ISBN-101477313486
ISBN-139781477313480
eBay Product ID (ePID)236990031
Product Key Features
Number of Pages356 Pages
Publication NameBooks Are Made Out of Books : a Guide to Cormac Mccarthy's Literary Influences
LanguageEnglish
SubjectAmerican / General
Publication Year2017
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
AuthorMichael Lynn Crews
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight26.1 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2017-003553
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsWhen invited over to a friend's place for the first time, I love to browse my host's bookshelves, mainly in the hope of discovering some new or obscure author to read myself. This is a bit what reading Books Are Made Out of Books is like, and why I found it such a pleasure to read...This book was as engaging as it was informative, and I recommend Books Are Made Out of Books to anyone interested in the 'strange tomes' of such a fascinating writer., A rich and meticulous study...Crews's depth will underline the importance of Cormac McCarthy's place in American and world literature., Michael Crews has performed a great service in writing his thoughtful and carefully researched Books Are Made Out of Books ...McCarthy scholars will certainly admire Crews's intrepidness and thoroughness and will be delighted to have found a book we have really needed., A necessary addition to any serious McCarthy scholar's library...Crews not only demonstrates the value of the McCarthy papers for opening up new lines of enquiry in literary criticism, but also uses detailed archival research to create a substantial picture of the variety of works and authors that have informed most of this major novelist's work., Crews's highly readable and meticulously compiled reference book will prove a useful tool for McCarthy scholars--not merely in terms of mapping the sources of McCarthy's intellectual content and rhetorical procedures, but also in fostering a more nuanced view of his postmodern techniques of pastiche, pasting and appropriation., A marvelous and essential tool for McCarthy scholarship. It is remarkable for the completeness of its sources, its meticulous scholarly research, and its accessibility... Books Are Made Out of Books will facilitate exciting future scholarship on McCarthy's work.
Dewey Decimal813.54
SynopsisCormac McCarthy told an interviewer for the New York Times Magazine that "books are made out of books," but he has been famously unwilling to discuss how his own writing draws on the works of other writers. Yet his novels and plays masterfully appropriate and allude to an extensive range of literary works, demonstrating that McCarthy is well aware of literary tradition, respectful of the canon, and deliberately situating himself in a knowing relationship to precursors. The Wittliff Collection at Texas State University acquired McCarthy's literary archive in 2007. In Books Are Made Out of Books , Michael Lynn Crews thoroughly mines the archive to identify nearly 150 writers and thinkers that McCarthy himself references in early drafts, marginalia, notes, and correspondence. Crews organizes the references into chapters devoted to McCarthy's published works, the unpublished screenplay Whales and Men , and McCarthy's correspondence. For each work, Crews identifies the authors, artists, or other cultural figures that McCarthy references; gives the source of the reference in McCarthy's papers; provides context for the reference as it appears in the archives; and explains the significance of the reference to the novel or play that McCarthy was working on. This groundbreaking exploration of McCarthy's literary influences--impossible to undertake before the opening of the archive--vastly expands our understanding of how one of America's foremost authors has engaged with the ideas, images, metaphors, and language of other thinkers and made them his own., This groundbreaking exploration of Cormac McCarthy's literary archive draws on his own extensive notes to identify nearly 150 writers and thinkers whose work has influenced this Pulitzer Prize-winning author., Cormac McCarthy told an interviewer for the New York Times Magazine that "books are made out of books," but he has been famously unwilling to discuss how his own writing draws on the works of other writers. Yet his novels and plays masterfully appropriate and allude to an extensive range of literary works, demonstrating that McCarthy is well aware of literary tradition, respectful of the canon, and deliberately situating himself in a knowing relationship to precursors. The Wittliff Collection at Texas State University acquired McCarthy's literary archive in 2007. In Books Are Made Out of Books, Michael Lynn Crews thoroughly mines the archive to identify nearly 150 writers and thinkers that McCarthy himself references in early drafts, marginalia, notes, and correspondence. Crews organizes the references into chapters devoted to McCarthy's published works, the unpublished screenplay Whales and Men, and McCarthy's correspondence. For each work, Crews identifies the authors, artists, or other cultural figures that McCarthy references; gives the source of the reference in McCarthy's papers; provides context for the reference as it appears in the archives; and explains the significance of the reference to the novel or play that McCarthy was working on. This groundbreaking exploration of McCarthy's literary influences--impossible to undertake before the opening of the archive--vastly expands our understanding of how one of America's foremost authors has engaged with the ideas, images, metaphors, and language of other thinkers and made them his own.
LC Classification NumberPS3563.C337Z64 2017
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