Grotesque and Southern Gothic in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian by Hüseyin Altındiş

“…This article offers a post-southernist reading that challenges and problematizes the impacts of haunted past of the American South with implications of violence embodied by Judge Holden in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West. …”
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Landscapes as Narrative Commentary in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West by Dianne C. Luce

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Cormac McCarthy and the Genre Turn in Contemporary Literary Fiction by James Dorson

“…This essay looks at the role that genre has played in Cormac McCarthy’s fiction since his turn to the Western with Blood Meridian (1985). …”
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“Some Unholy Alloy”: Neoliberalism, Digital Modernity, and the Mechanics of Globalized Capital in Cormac McCarthy’s The Counselor by David Deacon

“…This article proposes a reading of The Counselor (2013) as an extrapolation of the frontier ethic animating much of Cormac McCarthy’s earlier writing. I will propose that echoes of Blood Meridian (1985), which presented the duality of barbarism and capital, are audible and perpetuated under digital capitalism, a condition encompassing the expansion of increasingly impersonal and anonymized capital under neoliberal socio-economics, empowered by digital globalization. …”
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Old Nick Crossed the Mississippi: The Figure of the Devil in Late Cold War Era Novels of the American West by Michael Walonen

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