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	BLOOD MERIDIAN & LOVE MEDICINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Blood Meridian is, in structure, style, and subject a fairly traditional nineteenth century novel; Love Medicine, however, is highly unconventional, not a novel at all in the usual sense of the word, much like Faulkner's Go Down, Moses.
		Blood Meridian is in some interesting (though overlooked) ways a Western in the dime novel tradition, not that of the more genteel Westerns that came later.
		In the end, the strongest argument is that if Blood Meridian is an indictment of anything, it is both the traditional myth of the west and the alternative one of those revisionists who seek to portray the settlement as yet another case of rapacious Europeans descending, wolf-like, on peaceful natives.
	home.olemiss.edu /~jmitchel/critique.htm (6249 words)

	Blood Meridian
		Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West, with the best works of Dante, Poe, De Sade, Melville, Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor and William Styron.
		Reinvisioning the ideology of manifest destiny upon which the American dream was founded, Blood Meridian depicts the borderland between knowledge and power, between progress and dehumanization, between history and myth and, most importantly, between physical violence and the violence of language.
		Blood Meridian is not for the faint-hearted, requiring of its readers (as of its characters) an initiation to the grim but often funny business of desacralization, especially of sacred cows.
	www.cormacmccarthy.com /works/bloodmeridian.htm (587 words)

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		Tatum suggests that in the movement from Blood Meridian to the Border Trilogy, McCarthy offers a retelling of the same story, providing continuity to the four novels and challenging the basis of the Western, as readers are forced to examine the elements of self-delusion necessary to maintain the epistemological foundations of the genre (477-78).
		Blood Meridian has been accused of being both "pornographically" violent and "terribly beautiful" (Jarrell 32; Winchell 309); it has been criticized for its obsessive detailing of the horrific depravity of the gang of mercenaries while overindulging in Faulknerian prose (Shaviro 149; Arnold and Luce 1).
		Blood Meridian becomes an important text in the tradition of the Western, then, primarily for the ways it restores the history of empire to the genre.
	faculty.gvsu.edu /royerd/courses/495/western.htm (10543 words)

	The New York Review of Books: The Treasure of Comanche County
		Blood Meridian, or, The Evening Redness in the West, McCarthy's fifth novel and the first set in the southwest borderlands to which he would lay a passionate literary claim, is the author's most challenging work of fiction.
		Yet Blood Meridian and the Border Trilogy are counterpoised: the one a furious debunking of the legendary West, the other a subdued, humane, and subtle exploration of the tangled roots of such legends of the West as they abide in the human heart.
		Whereas Blood Meridian scorns any idealism except the jeremiad—"War is god"—the interlinked novels of the Border Trilogy testify to the quixotic idealism that celebrates brotherhood, loyalty, the integrity of the cowboy-worker as one whose life is bound up with animals in a harsh and dangerous environment.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/18359 (3453 words)

	XENA DINOSAUR BARDS: BLOOD MERIDIAN - by Penumbra
		It was another life: innocent, eager, the rich blood in her veins singing of life, not of the scent of death she so relished that day.
		Blood raged through her in hot waves, the intensity making her hands shake as they traced the familiar insignia on Laius' tunic.
		She had been careless, foolish back then, the taste of blood on her tongue and in her mouth had been an aphrodisiac too strong to be resisted.
	cousinliz.com /fanfic/penumbra_bm(3).html (8114 words)

	Amazon.com: Blood Meridian : Or the Evening Redness in the West (Vintage International): Books: Cormac Mccarthy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		BLOOD MERIDIAN is the story of "The Kid", born in Tennessee in 1833, who decamps from the home of his drunken widower father and heads south.
		One major theme of BLOOD MERIDIAN may be that "moral law is an invention of mankind for the disenfranchisement of the powerful in favour of the weak" (p250) and that man's purpose on earth is eventually to have domain over every living thing on it - man as wrathful destroyer.
		Neither uplifting nor enlightening, BLOOD MERIDIAN is an unrelenting descent into the darkest side of man. A fitting work to find its place in the 20th century, the century which gave full rein to the destructive possibilities of humans.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679728759?v=glance (2338 words)

	Blood Meridian, Constant Reader Discussion
		But (I infer from BLOOD MERIDIAN) the heart of man is a thing which is perfectly capable of making him lose his mind when it is laid bare.
		In BLOOD MERIDIAN, on the other hand, there seems to be neither sin nor sinners; instead there is mere randomness and the viciousness of the human heart which almost seems to create evil out of whole cloth.
		In BLOOD MERIDIAN, I was reveling in the Spanish, understanding it and thinking how nice it was that he had simply used it straight, without translation.
	www.constantreader.com /discussions/bloodmeridian.htm (15877 words)

	Books: The Bloody Southwest (Tucson Weekly . 05-18-98)
		Blood Meridian opens by introducing us to its narrator, known only as the kid, an abandoned 14-year-old, a wild child.
		They gather scalps, teeth, heads, and hearts as the receipts of their trade; the kid, the gentlest of the lot, proudly wears a necklace of human ears, flened and shriveled by the desert sun.
		Blood Meridian is a dark, cheerless novel that aims to destroy a few myths--not only the cherished and carefully engineered icons of our national past, but also any hint whatever of the fundamental goodness of the human animal.
	weeklywire.com /ww/05-18-98/tw_book1.html (829 words)

	Welcome to Adobe GoLive 6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		At the same time, Blood Meridian has echoes of the west’s celebratory origins of landscape, but it is transfigured into a space where the landscape is a dead physical arena, a field for violence.
		In Blood Meridian, the landscape’s representation and meaning is in contradiction to Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales; Meridian destroys and recreates the role landscape plays in Cooper’s tales and subverts the landscape as a set of acknowledged images and significations in literature of the west.
		Meridian’s landscape is without decline, for decline indicates a progression from an origin located somewhere in the Edenic or innocent past.
	afaircity.com /academic.html (16180 words)

	Blood Meridian Essays - Depravity and Destruction in Blood Meridian
		Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian is a passionate, lyrical, and ugly novel of depravity and destruction of life in the Old West.
		Like all of McCarthy's earlier novels, Blood Meridian (1985) had a lukewarm arrival to the literary world in the sense of sales and publicity, in part due to McCarthy's own aversion to self-promotion (Woodward 28).
		Blood Meridian, McCarthy's fifth book, was received with a variety of reactions from critics.
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	Et In Arcadia Ego Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The more famous second version of the subject, measuring 122 by 85 cm, is in the Louvre, Paris, and also goes under the name "Les bergers d'Arcadie" ("The Arcadian Shepherds").
		The phrase is a memento mori, which is usually interpreted to mean "I am also in Arcadia" or "I am even in Arcadia", as if spoken by personified Death.
		In The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, Baigent, Lee and Lincoln proposed that the phrase is an anagram for I!
	www.alienartifacts.com /encyclopedia/Et_in_Arcadia_ego (896 words)

	Blood Meridian, Part 1 --- by Penumbra
		Gabrielle gripped the forearms she was holding more tightly as she settled into the kiss, her blood rising at the feel of the rosy petals on her mouth, and of the incredible heat that came from the body behind her.
		The minute twitching of her jaw muscles testified that she was nearing the dark abyss; it was as if Xena’s blood was commanding her to enjoy the deathly harvest her hands reaped.
		Gabrielle drew blood as she bit her lower lip to distract herself from the pain of the needle.
	www.curunir.com /xenafic/pen-meridian1.html (12958 words)

	Sample text for Library of Congress control number 91050742
		Blood Meridian (1985) seems to me the authentic American apocalyptic novel, more relevant even in 2000 than it was fifteen years ago.
		The fulfilled renown of Moby-Dick and of As I Lay Dying is augmented by Blood Meridian, since Cormac McCarthy is the worthy disciple both of Melville and of Faulkner.
		Nevertheless, I urge the reader to persevere, because Blood Meridian is a canonical imaginative achievement, both an American and a universal tragedy of blood.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/samples/random045/91050742.html (1387 words)

	Blood Meridian Essays - Free Essays on the Setting of Blood Meridian
		According to one critic, this beauteous landscape is the lone virginal feature of the novel and seems to be detached from the murder and chaos of the plot (James 31).
		In Blood Meridian, man's futile search to find an unobtainable meaning in his existence is exemplified by the savage brutality of his actions when there are no limitations of morality or law.
		A comparison of man's fruitless journey is described as "they move like migrants under a drifting star and their track across the land reflected in its faint arcature the movements of the earth itself" (McCarthy 153).
	www.123helpme.com /view.asp?id=5488 (1046 words)

	Blood Meridian & Love Medicine
		It is precisely in its similarities to the dime novel and to the later (Lejeune would say 'decadent') Western that Blood Meridian so transgresses the Western myth, because both of these aspects of the novel--its extreme level of violence and its apparent historicity--reinforce the observation that the book does not have a moral center (Kartiganer).
		This is where Shaviro, in his otherwise excellent essay, seems to miss the point, by stating that Blood Meridian "explode[s] the American dream of manifest destiny, of racial domination, and endless imperial expansion" (112).
		They consume vastly without producing, like the paper entrepreneurs of the 1980s.[7] Yet even this is problematic; the same criticisms that we might level against Glanton and those Spanish imperialists who employ him hold true of the Apaches.
	www.uiowa.edu /~c008g001/handouts/bm_mitchell.html (4334 words)

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	Salon Books \| Cormac McCarthy: Sentimental journey
		A few years later I read "Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West," a novel set in southwest Texas and the Mexican state of Chihuahua in the years after the Civil War, tracing the crooked travelings of a band of drifters and ex-soldiers turned marauders and assassins.
		By the time the animals were secured and [the men] had thrown themselves on the ground under the creosote bushes with their weapons readied the riders were beginning to appear far out on the lake bed, a thin frieze of mounted archers that trembled and veered in the rising heat.
		I was prompted to read "Blood Meridian" in 1991, some six years after it was published, when Don DeLillo called it one of the best American novels he'd read in the previous decade.
	www.salon.com /books/feature/1998/05/cov_20feature.html (980 words)

	Blood Meridian
		Blood Meridian is the story of a drifter, known only as "The Kid".
		Hey kids, not only was there a real count Dracula, but he drank blood and could turn into a bat, too.
		McCarthy's Indians aren't wise medicine men sitting stoically by the campfire patiently waiting to be slaughtered by the White man. No, his Indians aren't victims, they're blood thirty savages who kill babies by bashing in their skulls.
	www.rodneyanonymous.com /meridian.html (410 words)

	Musing - June 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Blood Meridian both contrasts and complements this lyrical prose with scenes of appalling violence.
		Yet the violence in Blood Meridian is for the most part unaffecting, because we have no character whose fate we care about.
		Sugar is never less than fascinating, strong and intelligent; though the novel leaves her ultimate fate unknown I have no doubt that she forged a new life, one where she no longer had to sell herself.
	home.earthlink.net /~skcozy/muse_archive_0604.html (898 words)

	Splendid Magazine reviews Blood Meridian: We Almost Made It Home
		Sometimes the piano harmonizes with the guitar, sometimes it's laid on thick like oil paint, and sometimes it ebbs and surges like the tide -- but whatever it's doing is precisely what the song, at that moment, calls for.
		It has the same sort of relentlessly bleak subject matter for which those morbid indie-country gods are famous, but more importantly, the song shows that Blood Meridian have the same talent for relentless, shameless, fearless use of classic country tropes.
		The result is a subtle, evocative blend that Blood Meridian should definitely give more thought to in the future, in the event that they decide to move beyond alt-country's increasingly crowded confines.
	www.splendidmagazine.com /review.html?reviewid=1109588691203815 (531 words)

	FFWD Weekly - November 11, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Rough seas may have prevented the band from making it to their gig in Halifax that night, but it’s a minor setback compared to the obstacles Blood Meridian’s members overcame to arrive at their current configuration.
		With all of their divergent experiences in the music industry, each of Blood Meridian’s members brings a different flavour and influence to the table.
		It’s a surprise for those listeners who are familiar with the pedigrees that produced the musicians behind Blood Meridian’s ponderous pacing and existential undertones.
	www.ffwdweekly.com /Issues/2004/1111/mus2.htm (598 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Blood Meridian: Or, the Evening Redness in the West (Picador Books): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		That's what Blood Meridian is. It's an amazing, hypnotic, violent dance of imagery.
		"Blood Meridian", based on real events, charts the bloody adventures of a group of scalp-hunters in the west a century and a half ago.
		Throughout, the novel is bestrode by the looming figure of Judge Holden, awesome and terrible, all-knowing yet uncaring, omnipotent and omnipresent, an 1850s reworking of the devil.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0330312561 (635 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Blood Meridian is a novel that employs a wide spectrum of devices to explore difficult themes drawn from a specific period in our nation's history.
		Blood Meridian in not without its fair share of subversion however.
		Blood Meridian is the most important novel I have read since Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. It deals with a period of our history that is usually romanticized by glamorous portrayals on the big screen.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0679728759 (1875 words)

	On The Edge: McCarthy's Blood Meridian and Conrad's Heart Of Darkness by David Gow
		Only that man who has offered himself up entire to the blood of war, who has been to the floor of the pit and seen horror in the round and learned at last that it speaks to his inmost heart, only that man can dance.
		Operating on the edge of an expanding civilisation, the characters in McCarthy's novel are misfits released from the constraints of society.
		They inflict an apparently unavoidable violence on the frontier, a blood meridian after which civilisation can follow, and one which the myths of that civilisation will neatly erase.
	www.allanguthrie.co.uk /dgote.htm (1513 words)

	The Pinocchio Theory » Blog Archive » No Country For Old Men
		In both novels, the landscape of the American Southwest is drenched in blood: the effect is existentially chilling, but the novels also go beyond the existential in that they comment on American history and society more generally.
		In Blood Meridian, set just after the Mexican War of 1848, America as the land of Manifest Destiny is at stake, especially with regards to the Anglos’ relations to Mexicans and Indians.
		In Blood Meridian, the witness is a young man (15 or 16 years old) who is never named but only called “the kid.” In No Country For Old Men, the structurally identical role is played by Sheriff Bell, who must be in his mid-fifties but feels (and sounds) much older.
	www.shaviro.com /Blog?p=431 (3012 words)

	The Elegant Variation: MCCARTHY INDOORS
		I wish I could remember the critic who said that to read Blood Meridian was to never again know peace.
		Blood Meridian is a beauty, but Suttree is unreal.
		Blood Meridian is the most shocking, but The Crossing--the middle Texas book--is damn good, too, and Suttree is just about venturing into Joyce territory.
	marksarvas.blogs.com /elegvar/2005/07/mccarthy_indoor.html (1131 words)

	MANIFEST DESTINY / Necklaces of Human Ears Through History / The scalping party, 'Blood Meridian' to Iraq
		In his dark 1985 masterpiece, "Blood Meridian," novelist Cormac McCarthy tells the terrifying tale of a gang of Yanqui scalp-hunters who left an apocalyptic trail of carnage from Chihuahua to Southern California in the early 1850s.
		But "Blood Meridian," like all of McCarthy's novels, is based on meticulous research.
		Very early, Tiger Force began scalping its victims (the scalps were dangled from the ends of M-16s) and cutting off their ears as souvenirs.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/11/23/INGUL36QMH1.DTL&type=printable (1276 words)

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