Books by John McCormick

This book is a direct product of World War II, of the long years at sea that gave the author the feeling that the past was no more than an illusion. He compares past with present, one nation with another, to clarify the conviction that the nature of imaginative fiction had been altered by our wars.

Ernest Hemingway, best-known to layman and aficionado alike, in his fiction described bullfighting, or toreo, as a cross between romantic risk and a drunken party, or as an elaborate substitute for war, ending in wounds or death

Covering the history, governing institutions, and policies of the European Union, Jonathan Olsen and John McCormick present the EU as one of the world's economic and political superpowers, which has brought far-reaching changes to the lives of Europeans and has helped its member states to take a newly assertive role on the global stage.

Features a collection of essays on a variety of topics, followed by work on individual writers, and writings on criticism and theory. This book includes a section on Santayana, and Spain and toreo (bullfighting).

This is intended as a critical, rather than encyclopaedic, history of literature on both sides of the Atlantic between the end of World War I and the political and social crises that arose in the 1930s. Although emphasizing American writers, European influences are also considered.

In this important new book, McCormick argues that the EU has become an economic and political superpower, whose new global role calls into doubt most of the recent assessments of unipolarity in world politics and American 'Empire'. In his inimitably clear and accessible style, McCormick shows how the rise of Europe has been underplayed.

Inspired by Hemingway's accounts of bullfighting, but aware of the author's romanticization of the subject, this book is an analysis and critique of the origins and myths of the art, and a survey of the literature it has inspired.