Review Essays on Recent Scholarship: Elmore Bros. on McCarthy-as-Philosopher; Isekenmeier on Contemporary Literary Mediality; Lindquist on Postnationalism in Postmodernism

Three Review Essays: Cormac McCarthy, Philosopher            Review of:Eagle (ed), Philosophical Approaches to Cormac McCarthy: Beyond Reckoning. Mundik, A Bloody and Barbarous God: The Metaphysics of Cormac McCarthy.Hawkins, Cormac McCarthy’s Philosophy.  Three Ways of Looking at a Horse: Literature and Media / The Medium of Literature            Review of:St Clair, Sound and Aural Media in Postmodern Literature: Novel ListeningBarton, Visual Devices in Contemporary Prose Fiction: Gaps, Gestures, ImagesBruhn, The Intermediality of Narrative Literature: Medialities Matter “Where in the World is American Literature?” Tracing the Postnational in Postmodern and Contemporary FictionReview of:Coffman, Rewriting Early America: the Prenational Past in Postmodern LiteratureGarcía-Caro, After the Nation: Postnational Satire in the Works of Carlos Fuentes and Thomas Pynchon McClintock, Topologies of Fear in Contemporary Fiction: The Anxieties of Post-Nationalism and Counter Terrorism [a note from the Book Reviews Editor: if you’re interested in reviewing a book on any aspect of unconventional post-1945 US literature—especially in the present format of single review essays covering multiple related books—please send an email proposing a review to reviews@pynchon.net]