{"product_id":"books-are-made-out-of-books-a-guide-to-cormac-mccarthys-literary-influences-9781477330845","title":"Books Are Made Out of Books: A Guide to Cormac McCarthy's Literary Influences","description":"\u003cp\u003e Cormac McCarthy told an interviewer for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e that \"books are made out of books,\" but he was famously unwilling to discuss how his own writing draws on the works of other writers. Yet his novels and plays masterfully appropriate and allude to an extensive range of literary works, demonstrating that McCarthy was well aware of literary tradition and deliberately situating himself in a knowing relationship to precursors. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In \u003ci\u003eBooks Are Made Out of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, Michael Lynn Crews thoroughly mines McCarthy's literary archive to identify over 150 writers and thinkers that McCarthy referenced in early drafts, marginalia, notes, and correspondence. Crews organizes the references into chapters devoted to McCarthy's published works, the unpublished screenplay \u003ci\u003eWhales and Men\u003c\/i\u003e, and McCarthy's correspondence. This updated edition now examines McCarthy's final publications: the novel \u003ci\u003eThe Passenger\u003c\/i\u003e and its play-like coda \u003ci\u003eStella Maris\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e For each work, Crews identifies authors, artists, or other cultural figures that McCarthy referenced; gives the source of the reference in McCarthy's papers; provides context for the reference as it appears in the archives; and explains the significance of the reference to the novel or play that McCarthy was working on. This groundbreaking exploration of McCarthy's literary influences vastly expands our understanding of how one of America's foremost authors engaged with the ideas, images, metaphors, and language of other thinkers and made them his own. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Michael Lynn Crews is an associate professor of English at Regent University. He specializes in American and contemporary literature. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50893365313810,"sku":"9781477330845","price":47.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2a77ed14-519c-4a24-b391-1cce587789f4.jpg?v=1738231672","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/books-are-made-out-of-books-a-guide-to-cormac-mccarthys-literary-influences-9781477330845","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}