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Aguila, Richard. "Wanted Dead or Alive: The American West in Popular Culture." Urbana : U of Illinois P (1996): 313.
Arnold, Edwin T. "The Last of the Trilogy: First Thoughts on Cities of the Plain." Luce-Dianne-C. (Ed. and Introd. 256 (1999): 221-47.
---. "Naming, Knowing and Nothingness: McCarthy's Moral Parables." Luce-Dianne-C. (Ed. and Introd. 256 (1999): 45-69.
---. "The World of The Orchard Keeper; John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University of Berlin, June 26-28 1998." Guillemin-George (Acknowledgements). Proceedings of the First European Conference on Cormac McCarthy. Miami, FL : Cormac McCarthy Society 70 (1999): 1-5.
Arnold, Edwin T., and Dianne C. Luce. "Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy." Jackson, MS : UP of Mississippi (1999): 256.
Bain, Robert. "Two Versions of the West: The Grapes of Wrath and The Big Rock Candy Mountain." Steinbeck Newsletter 10.1 (1997): 14-17.
Barnes, Barbara E. "Debunking the Myth of the West." The Review-of-Contemporary-Fiction 3.1 (1983): 62-68.
Bold, Christine. "The Voice of the Fiction Factory in Dime and Pulp Westerns." Journal of American Studies, Cambridge, England (JAmS) 17.1 (Apr 1983): 29-46.
Bourassa, Alan Turney. "Impersonal Creatures: Modalities of the Non-Human in Faulkner, Wharton and the Anglo-American Novel." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A 60.6 (Dec 1999): 2017-18.
Bowers, James Mackey. "The Malevolent Imagination and Murderous Art: The Fiction of Charles Baxter, Steven Millhauser, and Cormac McCarthy." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A 60.8 (Feb 2000): 2919-20.
Campbell, Neil. "Beyond Reckoning': Cormac McCarthy's Version of the West in Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West." Critique 39.1 (1997): 55-64.
Carragher, Michael. "I Tego Arcana Dei': Aspects of the Demonic in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian." Publications-of-the-Arkansas-Philological-Association, Batesville, AR (PAPA) 23.1 (1997): 13-21.
Cawelti, John G. "Masculine Myths and Feminist Revisions: Some Thoughts on the Future of Popular Genres." Nachbar-John-G. (Ed. 294 (1994): 121-31.
---. "The Six-Gun Mystique." Bowling Green, OH : Popular (1984): 155.
Cervo, Nathan A. "Grey's Riders of the Purple Sage." Explicator, Washington, DC (Expl) 55.4 (1997): 214-15.
Chollier, Christine. "Exposure and Double Exposure in Cormac McCarthy's Baroque Trilogy; John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University of Berlin, June 26-28 1998." Guillemin-George (Acknowledgements). Proceedings of the First European Conference on Cormac McCarthy. Miami, FL : Cormac McCarthy Society 70 (1999): 49-56.
Clarke, Colin A. "Like a Mirror Reflecting Itself: Natty Bumppo, The Virginian, and the Fate of the American Frontier." James Fenimore Cooper 11 (1997): 26-31.
Cole, Kevin L. "McCarthy's The Crossing." Explicator, Washington, DC (Expl) 55.2 (1997): 112-14.
Daugherty, Leo. "Gravers False and True: Blood Meridian as Gnostic Tragedy." Luce-Dianne-C. (Ed. and Introd. 256 (1999): 159-74.
Dollar, J. Gerard. "Misogyny in the American Eden: Abbey, Cather, and Maclean." Johnson-Rochelle (Ed. 266 (1998): 97-105.
Ellis, Jay. "Arcs Within the Arc; John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University of Berlin, June 26-28 1998." Guillemin-George (Acknowledgements). Proceedings of the First European Conference on Cormac McCarthy. Miami, FL : Cormac McCarthy Society 70 (1999): 45-49.
Etulain, Richard W. "Telling Western Stories: From Buffalo Bill to Larry McMurtry." Albuquerque, NM : U of New Mexico P (1999): 174.
Friesen, Victor Carl. "Thoreau and Zane Grey's The Vanishing American." Concord-Saunterer, Greenville, NC (ConcS) 6 (1998): 169-76.
Giullemin, George. "Books Made Out of Books': Some Instances of Intertextuality with Southern Literature in Outer Dark; John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University of Berlin, June 26-28 1998." Guillemin-George (Acknowledgements). Proceedings of the First European Conference on Cormac McCarthy. Miami, FL : Cormac McCarthy Society 70 (1999): 28-34.
Grammer, John M. "A Thing Against Which Time Will Not Prevail: Pastoral and History in Cormac McCarthy's South." Luce-Dianne-C. (Ed. and Introd. 256 (1999): 29-44.
Grattan, George F. "Climbing Back Into the Tree: Art, Nature, and Theology in A River Runs Through It." Harrington-Henry (Ed. and Introd. 368 (2000): 231-42.
Hada, Kenneth. "McCarthy's The Crossing." Explicator, Washington, DC (Expl) 58.1 (1999): 57-60.
Hillis, Doris. "An Interview with Guy Vanderhaeghe." Wascana Review of Contemporary Poetry and Short Fiction 0a2.32 (1997): 1-2.
Holloway, David. "A Longing Which Has Clouded Their Minds': Seeking Transcendent Space in Blood Merideian and the Border Trilogy; John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University of Berlin, June 26-28 1998." Guillemin-George (Acknowledgements). Proceedings of the First European Conference on Cormac McCarthy. Miami, FL : Cormac McCarthy Society 70 (1999): 40-48.
Holloway, David, and George Guillemin. "Proceedings of the First European Conference on Cormac McCarthy; John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University of Berlin, June 26-28 1998." Miami, FL : Cormac McCarthy Society (1999): 70.
Hubner, Brian. "A Race of Mules': Mixed-Bloods in Western American Fiction." Canadian Journal of Native Studies 15.1 (1995): 61-74.
Hunt, Alex. "McCarthy's The Crossing." Explicator, Washington, DC (Expl) 56.3 (1998): 158-60.
Johnson, Don. "The Words Beneath the Stones: Salvation in A River Runs Through It." Aethlon 14.1 (1996): 301-07.
Kaye, Frances W. "The 49th Parallel and the 98th Meridian: Some Lines for Thought." Mosaic 14.2 (1981): 165-75.
Luce, Dianne C. "Cormac McCarthy's First Screenplay: 'The Gardener's Son." Luce-Dianne-C. (Ed. and Introd. 256 (1999): 71-96.
---. "The Road and the Matrix: The World as Tale in The Crossing." Luce-Dianne-C. (Ed. and Introd. 256 (1999): 195-247.
---. "Suttree's Knoxville/McCarthy's Knoxville: A Slide Presentation; John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University of Berlin, June 26-28 1998." Guillemin-George (Acknowledgements). Proceedings of the First European Conference on Cormac McCarthy. Miami, FL : Cormac McCarthy Society 70 (1999): 6-17.
MacDonald, Andrew, and Gina MacDonald. "Heroism and Romance in All the Pretty Horses." Creative-Screenwriting, Washington, DC (CrSc) 6 (Nov-Dec 2000): 44-46.
Marsden, Michael T. "Louis l'Amour's Hondo: From Literature to Film to Literature." Literature-Film-Quarterly, Salisbury, MD (LFQ) 27.1 (1999): 16-20.
Masters, Joshua J. "Witness to the Uttermost Edge of the World': Judge Holden's Textual Enterprise in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian." Critique 40.1 (1998): 25-37.
Mitchell, Jason P. "Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine, Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, and the (De)Mythologizing of the American West." Critique 41.3 (2000): 290-304.
Moeller, John. "Nature, Human Nature, and Society in the American Western." Sigelman-Lee (Ed. 200 (1988): 19-37.
Morrison, Gail Moore. "All the Pretty Horses: John Grady Cole's Expulsion from Paradise." Luce-Dianne-C. (Ed. and Introd. 256 (1999): 175-94.
Owens, Jay Barcley. "Cultural Myths on Cormac McCarthy's Southwestern Novels." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A Sept 1998: 59.
Plath, James. "Shadow Rider: The Hemingway Hero as Western Archetype." Hemingway and the Natural World. Moscow, ID : U of Idaho P 269 (1999): 69-86.
Prince, Lynn A. "The Reflective Translator: Cormac McCarthy's Works in German and French; John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University of Berlin, June 26-28 1998." Guillemin-George (Acknowledgements). Proceedings of the First European Conference on Cormac McCarthy. Miami, FL : Cormac McCarthy Society 70 (1999): 62-70.
Ragan, David Paul. "Values and Structure in The Orchard Keeper." Luce-Dianne-C. (Ed. and Introd. 256 (1999): 17-27.
Rapf, Joanna E. "Ritual and Revenge: A Look at the 'Western Situation." The Texas-Review, Huntsville, TX (TexasR) 3.1 (1982): 22-27.
Rehberger, Dean. "I Don't Know Buffalo Bill': Or, Hemingway and the Rhetoric of the Western." Blowing the Bridge: Essays on Hemingway and For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York : Greenwood 200 (1992): 159-84.
Sepich, John Emil. "What Kind of Indians Was Them?' Some Historical Sources in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian." Luce-Dianne-C. (Ed. and Introd. 256 (1999): 123-43.
Shaviro, Steven. "The Very Life of the Darkness': A Reading of Blood Meridian." Luce-Dianne-C. (Ed. and Introd. 256 (1999): 145-58.
Siegel, Mark. "Contemporary Trends in Western American Fiction." Maguire-James-H. (Introd. 1353 (1987): 1182-201.
Simonson, Harold P. "Norman Maclean's Two-Hearted River." Western-American-Literature, Logan, UT (WAL) 17.2 (Aug 1982): 149-55.
Softing, Inger Anne. "Desert Pandemonium: Cormac McCarthy's Apocalyptic 'Western' in Blood Meridian." American-Studies-in-Scandinavia, M, Denmark (AmStScan) 31.2 (1999): 13-30.
Solomon, Eric. "Early Baseball Fiction: The Case for Zane Grey." Aethlon 14.2 (1997): 111-18.
Spurgeon, Sara L. "Pledged in Blood': Truth and Redemption in Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses." Western-American-Literature, Logan, UT (WAL) 34.1 (1999): 25-44.
Tanner, Louis Edward. "Owen Wister: The Public Intellectual." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A Oct 1999: 60.
Toole, David. "Wonder, Grief, and Tragedy: A Nietzschean Defense of Young Men and Fire." Soundings 81 (1998): 1-2.
Trotignon, Beatrice. "Detailing the Wor(l)d; John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University of Berlin, June 26-28 1998." Guillemin-George (Acknowledgements). Proceedings of the First European Conference on Cormac McCarthy. Miami, FL : Cormac McCarthy Society 70 (1999): 18-27.
Twomey, Jay. "Tempting the Child: The Lyrical Madness of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian." Southern Quarterly 37 (1999): 3-4.
Wallach, Rick. "Three Dreams: The Bizarre Epilogue of Cities of the Plain; John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University of Berlin, June 26-28 1998." Guillemin-George (Acknowledgements). Proceedings of the First European Conference on Cormac McCarthy. Miami, FL : Cormac McCarthy Society 70 (1999): 57-61.
Weinberger, Theodore. "Religion and Fly Fishing: Taking Norman Maclean Seriously." Renascence 49.4 (1997): 281-89.
Young, Thomas D. Jr. "The Imprisonment of Sensibility: Suttree." Luce-Dianne-C. (Ed. and Introd. 256 (1999): 97-122.
 

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