Author: Michael Lynn Crews File Type: pdf Cormac McCarthy told an interviewer for the New York Times Magazine that books are made out of books, but he has been 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 is well aware of literary tradition, respectful of the canon, and deliberately situating himself in a knowing relationship to precursors. The Wittliff Collection at Texas State University acquired McCarthys literary archive in 2007. In Books Are Made Out of Books, Michael Lynn Crews thoroughly mines the archive to identify nearly 150 writers and thinkers that McCarthy himself references in early drafts, marginalia, notes, and correspondence. Crews organizes the references into chapters devoted to McCarthys published works, the unpublished screenplay Whales and Men, and McCarthys correspondence. For each work, Crews identifies the authors, artists, or other cultural figures that McCarthy references gives the source of the reference in McCarthys 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 McCarthys literary influencesimpossible to undertake before the opening of the archivevastly expands our understanding of how one of Americas foremost authors has engaged with the ideas, images, metaphors, and language of other thinkers and made them his own. **Review This compendium of Cormac McCarthys sources is remarkably complete. Any student of one of the great living American novelists would benefit immensely from having this volume. I particularly admire the rich gathering of background for the masterpiece Blood Meridian. (Harold Bloom, author of Falstaff Give Me Life) series editor of the Cormac McCarthy Casebook Series and editor of Myth, Legend, Dust Critical Responses to Cormac McCarthy, as well as the two-volume Sacred Violence (Rick Wallach, series editor of the Cormac McCarthy Casebook Series and editor of Myth, Legend, Dust Critical Responses to Cormac McCarthy, as well as the two-volume Sacred Violence) A fantastic tool for McCarthy scholars. If Sepichs Notes on Blood Meridian has become the compendium necessary to the scholarly study of Blood Meridian, this book is clearly pitched as the compendium to the literary influences of McCarthy. It will provide a provocative jumping-off point for much relevant and exciting future scholarship. (Lydia R. Cooper, Creighton University, author of No More Heroes Narrative Perspective and Morality in Cormac McCarthy) Review This compendium of Cormac McCarthys sources is remarkably complete. Any student of one of the great living American novelists would benefit immensely from having this volume. I particularly admire the rich gathering of background for the masterpiece Blood Meridian. ( Harold Bloom, author of Falstaff Give Me Life ) series editor of the Cormac McCarthy Casebook Series and editor of Myth, Legend, Dust Critical Responses to Cormac McCarthy, as well as the two-volume Sacred Violence ( Rick Wallach, series editor of the Cormac McCarthy Casebook Series and editor of Myth, Legend, Dust Critical Responses to Cormac McCarthy, as well as the two-volume Sacred Violence ) A fantastic tool for McCarthy scholars. If Sepichs Notes on Blood Meridian has become the compendium necessary to the scholarly study of Blood Meridian, this book is clearly pitched as the compendium to the literary influences of McCarthy. It will provide a provocative jumping-off point for much relevant and exciting future scholarship. ( Lydia R. Cooper, Creighton University, author of No More Heroes Narrative Perspective and Morality in Cormac McCarthy )

Author: Augustine Agwuele File Type: pdf This book offers an interpretation of Yoruba peoples affective responses to an adult Yoruba male with a deviant hairstyle. The work, which views hairstyles as a form of symbolic communicative signal that encodes messages that are perceived and interpreted within a culture, provides an ontological and epistemological interpretation of Yoruba beliefs regarding dreadlocks with real-life illustrations of their treatment of an adult male with what they term irun were (insane persons hairdo). Based on experiential observations as well as socio-cultural and linguistic analyses, the book explores the dynamism of Yoruba worldview regarding head-hair within contemporary belief systems and discusses some of the factors that assure its continuity. It concludes with a cross-cultural comparison of the perceptions of dreadlocks, especially between Nigerian Yoruba people an d African American Yoruba practitioners. **From the Back Cover This book offers an interpretation of Yoruba peoples affective responses to an adult Yoruba male with a deviant hairstyle. The work, which views hairstyles as a form of symbolic communicative signal that encodes messages that are perceived and interpreted within a culture, provides an ontological and epistemological interpretation of Yoruba beliefs regarding dreadlocks with real-life illustrations of their treatment of an adult male with what they term irun were (insane persons hairdo). Based on experiential observations as well as socio-cultural and linguistic analyses, the book explores the dynamism of Yoruba worldview regarding head-hair within contemporary belief systems and discusses some of the factors that assure its continuity. It concludes with a cross-cultural comparison of the perceptions of dreadlocks, especially between Nigerian Yoruba people and Afr ican American Yoruba practitioners. About the Author Augustine Agwuele is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Texas State University, USA. He combines the conceptual rigors of theoretical linguistics with ethnographically grounded scholarship in socio-cultural anthropology to study peoples and cultures of Africa. At the core of his works is the quest to make sense of variabilities associated with the production of speech segments (phonetics) and to uncover the fulcrum of a peoples perception of, and response to, life persistent concerns (socio-cultural studies).