Notes on Blood Meridian Revised and Expanded Edition

Name: Notes on Blood Meridian Revised and Expanded Edition
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ISBN: 9780292718210

ISBN-10: 0292718217

ISBN-13: 9780292718210

Edition: 2nd 2008 (Revised)

Authors: John Sepich, Edwin T. Arnold

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Blood Meridian (1985), Cormac McCarthy's epic tale of an otherwise nameless "kid" who in his teens joins a gang of licensed scalp hunters whose marauding adventures take place across Texas, Chihuahua, Sonora, Arizona, and California during 1849 and 1850, is widely considered to be one of the finest novels of the Old West, as well as McCarthy's greatest work. The New York Times Book Review ranked it third in a 2006 survey of the "best work of American fiction published in the last twenty-five years," and in 2005 Time chose it as one of the 100 best novels published since 1923. Yet Blood Meridian's complexity, as well as its sheer bloodiness, makes it difficult for some readers. To guide all…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 9/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Foreword



Preface


Acknowledgments



Introduction


The Problem of Information


Three Sections


Scalp Hunting and the Glanton Gang


Indian Haters



Biographies


The Reverend Green


Judge Holden


Captain White


John Joel Glanton


Albert Speyer


Consul Bennet Riddells


Governor Angel Trias


Grannyrat


Bathcat


Mangas Colorado


Sarah Borginnis


The Yuma Chiefs


Callaghan



Settings and Sources


The Leonids


The Comanche Attack


Ciboleros


The Hueco Tanks


Jesus Maria


The Wild Bull


The Meteorite


June 11, 1850


Fort Griffin


Chamberlain


Ruxton


Ruxton


Hobbs


Audubon


Bartlett


Wislizenus


Hughes


Reid


Dobie


Ober


Bourke



Addenda


Languages: Spanish, French, German


Map Citations


Essays



Tarot and Divination



Judge Holden's Gunpowder



Knitting the Winds


Arguments, Title, and Book


History


Glanton


Kid


Holden



Why Believe the Judge?



Concordances


Narrative Voice


Wolves


Apes


Smiles and Laughter


Egg and Dome


Fools and Crazies


Hallucinatory Void


Celestial


Marine


Carnival


Religious


Ritual, Music, and Dance


Chance, Fortune, and Deception


"Knitting the Winds" Concordances: Reins, Strap, String, Thread


"As if ... in a dream"


The Kid Helps


Look ... Look Away


Horses Shy, Horses Steady


Agency, Commitment, Witness



Massacre Accounts


New York Daily Tribune


New York Daily Tribune


William Carr's Los Angeles Deposition


Daily Alta California


Bibliography


Index