Books Are Made Out of Books: A Guide to Cormac McCarthy's Literary Influences.
- Author / Editor
- Crews, Michael Lynn.
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