Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West Summary
Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy, whose early novels were often set in eastern Tennessee and whose later work focuses on the American Southwest, is frequently compared with such Southern-based writers as William Faulk... Read more

In the following review, Hislop views Blood Meridian as more than a conventional Western, believing it to be a treatise on the interconnection of violence and culture. The sheriffs and gun-slingers... Read more

In the following essay, Dow examines Blood Meridian as a topographical study in the tradition of Henry David Thoreau's Walden. A general knowledge of the topography is, then, the main guide,... Read more

In the following essay, Spurgeon suggests that Blood Meridian attempts to bridge the difference between the mythic representations of the old West and the true natural world, particularly through its ... Read more

In the following essay, Eddins uses the philosophical theories of Arthur Schopenhauer to examine the aesthetics of Blood Meridian. The great novelists of modern times have tended to be those whose ... Read more

In the following essay, Sepich documents the historical context of Blood Meridian, particularly relying on General Samuel Emery Chamberlain's memoir My Confession. A number of critics have r... Read more

In the following essay, Schopen studies McCarthy's complexly integrated narrative structures in Blood Meridian, deeming that these elements fuse together to form a truthful assessment of the na... Read more

In the following essay, Campbell presents Blood Meridian as a re-creation of the traditional Western novel and its archetypal mythos. Depend upon it, there is mythology now as there was in the time... Read more

In the following essay, Masters views the ambiguous character of Judge Holden as a trailblazer of the Wild West who seeks to fill the moral vacuum of that space with his own brand of “amoral lo... Read more

In the following review, O'Brien discusses Blood Meridian within the context of the Western genre, noting differences and similarities between the two. The Western, being the simplest of gen... Read more