Contributor
Peebles, Stacey L. (Stacey Lyn), 1976- editor.
ImprintNew York : Modern Language Association of America, 2022.
Descriptionvi, 237 pages ; 24 cm.
Note:Part one. Materials -- Works -- Translations -- Interviews -- Biography -- Critical reception -- Part two. Approaches -- Introduction / Stacey Peebles and Benjamin West -- Historical and cultural context -- McCarthy and the question of violence / Stacey Peebles -- "A strange equality" : approaches to teaching gender in McCarthy / Lydia R. Cooper -- Multiculturalism, deep time, and Judge Holden / Rafael Acosta Morales -- Ecocritical approaches to McCarthy / Kevin Trumpeter -- The city and the landfill : teaching waste, toxicity, and southern environmental history in Suttree / Benjamin Mangrum -- "Freeze this frame" : McCarthy on page and screen / Mark Steven -- Literary pairings and context -- Maps and legends : teaching McCarthy as a postsouthern novelist / Nell Sullivan -- Teaching McCarthy's western novels from the perspective of the Western / Alex Harmon -- McCarthy and the nineteenth century : Melville, Dostoevsky, and the Romance tradition / Steven Frye -- Teaching The crossing as the making of a Mexican Corrido / Gene Young -- Cormac McCarthy made me do it : embodied responses to literary studies / Nicholas Monk -- Teaching The road in the context of apocalyptic studies / Shayna Sheinfeld -- Classroom contexts -- Teaching style using the Cormac McCarthy Corpus project : Blood meridian and The road / Delys W. Snyder, Phillip A. Snyder, and Jeremy Browne -- Teaching The orchard keeper to high school students / Jamie Brummer -- "Green hair and bones in their noses" : teenagers' appreciation for No country for old men / Kristy Wilson -- Cosmology in Outer dark / Christina Bieber Lake -- The road, consumerism, and consumption / Scott D. Yarbrough -- Ethical leadership and historical reflection : teaching McCarthy at the Citadel / Lauren Rule Maxwell -- The Cormac McCarthy journals : the single-author graduate course / Jay Watson, Robert Briggs, Andrew Thomas, and Josh-Wade Ferguson.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-237).
Note:"Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching Cormac McCarthy's works, including considerations of their depiction of violence and dystopia, distinctive prose style, and relation to film. Contextualizes the works as regional literature of the South and West. Gives syllabus suggestions for high school, undergraduate, and graduate courses in American literature."-- Provided by publisher.
