Books Are Made Out of Books: A Guide to Cormac McCarthy's Literary Influences.

Author / Editor
Crews, Michael Lynn.

Title
Books Are Made Out of Books: A Guide to Cormac McCarthy's Literary Influences.

Published
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017.

Physical Description
xiv, 332 pp.

Description
Locates a quotation from PardT in Cormac McCarthy's notes for his novel "Blood Meridian"; links McCarthy's penchant for "the stories-within-stories motif" to Chaucer; and identifies echoes of PardT in the old Mennonite episode of "Blood Meridian" and in Llewellyn Moss's death scene in "No Country for Old Men."

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Pardoner and His Tale