Cormac McCarthy: American Canticles

✍ Scribed by Kenneth Lincoln (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 190
Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This book is a guide to Cormac McCarthy's canon from The Road to All the Pretty Horses, delving into the dominant themes in his work, his influences from Faulkner to Dante, and the current cultural debates his books have figured into.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Headnote Penetrant and Simple: The Common Reader....Pages 1-4
Prologue Western Storykeeper: Life and Times....Pages 5-15
Canticles Down West: Hyperrealism....Pages 17-30
Back to Appalachia: The Orchard Keeper ....Pages 31-37
Dark Is a Way: Outer Dark ....Pages 39-48
Child of Whose God? Child of God ....Pages 49-60
Southern Milltown Script: The Gardener’s Son ....Pages 61-67
Awakening Frontier Muses: Suttree ....Pages 69-77
Go Bloody West: Blood Meridian....Pages 79-89
Theater Grotessco: The Stonemason ....Pages 91-99
Vacquero, Ride On: All the Pretty Horses ....Pages 101-111
Star-Crossed Cowboy: The Crossing ....Pages 113-127
Horse Sense and Human Fate: Cities of the Plain ....Pages 129-139
A Sorry Tale: No Country for Old Men ....Pages 141-153
Live or Die, Brother? The Sunset Limited ....Pages 155-162
The Final Story: The Road ....Pages 163-173
Epilogue No End....Pages 175-177
Back Matter....Pages 179-193

✦ Subjects

Fiction;North American Literature;British and Irish Literature;Twentieth-Century Literature;Literary Theory

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