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New Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy

Encountering The Passenger and Stella Maris

edited by Jonathan Elmore and Rick Elmore

Paperback
978-1-64336-648-7
Published: May 28 2026

$34.99

Hardcover
978-1-64336-627-2
 Published: May 28 2026

$114.99

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Ebook
978-1-64336-660-9
 Published: May 28 2026

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978-1-64336-660-9
 Published: May 28 2026

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The inclusion of this book in the Open Carolina collection is made possible by the generous funding of

Leading scholars take stock of McCarthy's final novels, illuminating the arc of his career, influence, and legacy

New Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy provides the first full-scale scholarly assessment of McCarthy's The Passenger and Stella Maris. While marked by McCarthy's unmistakable literary style, these novels venture into new genres and locales, focusing on mathematics and science, and showcasing his most developed and complex meditations on the nature of life and human consciousness. The essays in this volume chart unexpected paths through McCarthy's work and take up topics that include the writer's style, literary influences, and engagement with themes of quantum physics, history, capitalism, and psychiatry. Taken together these essays invite readers to question, explore, and speculate, at times in quite radical ways, about how to read McCarthy's final two novels and his work as a whole.



Jonathan Elmore is the Robert C. Snyder Associate Professor of English at Louisiana Tech University. His books include, as coeditor, The Evolving Project of Cormac McCarthy.

Rick Elmore is associate professor of philosophy at Appalachian State University. His books include, as coeditor, The Evolving Project of Cormac McCarthy.

"A significant set of fresh perspectives on Cormac McCarthy."—Steven Frye, California State University, Bakersfield, author of Unguessed Kinship: Naturalism and the Geography of Hope in Cormac McCarthys

"This ground-breaking volume will spark new conversations and open new avenues for exploration in McCarthy studies."—Michael Crews, Regent University, author of Books Are Made Out of Books: A Guide to Cormac McCarthy's Literary Influences

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