Contextualizing Cormac McCarthy's Border trilogy: An annotative approach

This dissertation, Contextualizing Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy: An Annotative Approach, attempts to delineate and amplify the details of McCarthy's three most recent Western novels and serve as a useful reference for serious scholars as well as casual readers of the Border Trilogy. After brief introductory materials in Chapter I, Chapters II-IV include a chronology, character index, and index of place names for each of the three novels. Annotations of cultural and historical allusions in the trilogy follow in Chapters V and VI. Maps of regions traversed by characters and significant to the plots of the novels are included throughout the dissertation. Information about arrangement precedes each section of the concordance.