Videos mentioned/recommended
The Vile Eye's video, which I am arguing against:    • Analyzing Evil: Judge Holden From Blo...  

"Episode 1: See the Child" by Blood Meridian: The Night Does Not End    • Episode I: See the Child  
It is clear that he deeply cares about Blood Meridian, and his channel deserves more followers.

"Blood Meridian, A Literary Analysis: Part 1/3 Evening Redness In The West" by Mountains of Books    • "Blood Meridian, A Literary Analysis:...  
Probably the most comprehensive video series on YouTube on Blood Meridian with a theory basis.

Note: The physical description of the Judge in the second section of the video is misattributed. The description is actually from Chamberlain's "My Confession" which served as the historical basis for McCarthy's Novel.

Attributions:
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (1985)
Leo Daugherty, “Gravers False and True: Blood Meridian as Gnostic Tragedy,” in Arnold and Luce, eds., Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy: 159–174. 162. (1993)
Striking the Fire out of the Rock: Gnostic Theology in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian" by Petra Mundik (2009)

Editions shown:
Blood Meridian: The Folio Society hardcover edition
https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/bloo...

The Orchard Keeper: Vintage International (A division of Penguin Random House) paperback edition
ISBN: 0679728724
ISBN13: 9780679728726


Outer Dark: Vintage International (A division of Penguin Random House) paperback edition
ISBN 10: 0679728732
ISBN 13: 9780679728733

Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy by Arnold and Luce, eds.: Revised edition by University of Mississippi Press. (1993)

On her influence from Daugherty, Mundik writes the following in the references of her essay

"Although this article owes a great deal to the initial inspiration afforded me by Professor Daugherty, nevertheless there are differences in emphasis in our respective interpretations. Firstly, I do not see Blood Meridian as adhering to Aristotelian conceptions of tragedy, partly
because I believe that the conclusion of the novel offers the reader no catharsis, and partly because the kid lacks a tragic flaw, or hubris, and thus his death is not tragic in the classical sense. Secondly, though I am in complete agreement with Professor Daugherty as to the Gnostic foundations of McCarthy’s vision in the novel, I have taken the liberty
of developing these seminal ideas more fully by pointing out additional Gnostic motifs and elaborating on those already covered by Professor Daugherty. Furthermore, in my treatment of the key passage of the ‘cold forger’ or ‘false graver,’ I diverge from Professor Daugherty’s interpretation altogether and offer an entirely new reading."




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