Cormac McCarthy: American Canticles (American Literature Readings in the Twenty-First Century)

✍ Scribed by Kenneth Lincoln

Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Leaves: 206
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

With a thirteen major works over a fifty-year career, one that includes a 2007 Pulitzer Prize, selection for Oprah’s Book Club, and Oscar-winning film adaptations of his novels, Cormac McCarthy is one of America’s best-selling novelists of the South and Southwest. Cormac McCarthy offers a shrewd chapter-by-chapter reading, exploring concepts such as the Southern Gothic novel, the Southwest border, faith and suicide, and father-son relationships. Respected scholar Kenneth Lincoln shows how McCarthy’s canticles of praise, grief, and warning mix classic, biblical, and ballad genres and cross the lyrical with the narrative. Lincoln makes a compelling case that McCarthy is our greatest millennial novelist in a time of heroic challenge and high global stakes.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Headnote: Penetrant and Simple: The Common Reader......Page 14
Prologue: Western Storykeeper: Life and Times......Page 18
1 Canticles Down West: Hyperrealism......Page 30
2 Back to Appalachia: The Orchard Keeper......Page 44
3 Dark Is a Way: Outer Dark......Page 52
4 Child of Whose God? Child of God......Page 62
5 Southern Milltown Script: The Gardener’s Son......Page 74
6 Awakening Frontier Muses: Suttree......Page 82
7 Go Bloody West: Blood Meridian......Page 92
8 Theater Grotessco: The Stonemason......Page 104
9 Vacquero, Ride On: All the Pretty Horses......Page 114
10 Star-Crossed Cowboy: The Crossing......Page 126
11 Horse Sense and Human Fate: Cities of the Plain......Page 142
12 A Sorry Tale: No Country for Old Men......Page 154
13 Live or Die, Brother? The Sunset Limited......Page 168
14 The Final Story: The Road......Page 176
Epilogue: No End......Page 188
Selected Criticism......Page 192
About the Author......Page 198
B......Page 200
E......Page 201
I......Page 202
N......Page 203
S......Page 204
Y......Page 205
Z......Page 206

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