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Introduction / Sara L. Spurgeon -- pt. I. All the pretty horses (1991). "This is another country" : the complex feminine presence in All the pretty horses / Linda Woodson -- Hang and rattle : John Grady Cole's horsebreaking in typescript, novel, and film / Stacey Peebles -- McCarthy's multitude(s) : All the pretty horses and los hombres del país / Andrew Husband -- pt. II. No country for old men (2005). "Mercantile ethics" : No country for old men and the narcocoriddo / Stephen Tatum -- "Do you see?" : levels of ellipsis in No country for old men / Jay Ellis -- Evil, mood, and reflection in the Coen brothers' No country for old men / Dan Flory -- pt. III. The road (2006). "Everything uncoupled from its shoring" : quandaries of epistemology and ethics in The road / Donovan Gwinner -- "Barren, silent, godless" : ecodisaster and the post-abundant landscape in The road / Susan Kollin -- "He ought not have done it" : McCarthy and apocalypse / Dana Phillips. |
