Cormac McCarthy: American Canticles

by K. Lincoln

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230619678
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	02/09/2010
Series:	American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
Edition description:	2009
Pages:	193
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

KENNETH LINCOLN is Professor of Contemporary Literature, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

Table of Contents

Penetrant and Simple Western Storykeeper Canticles Down West Back to Appalachia Dark is a Way Child of Whose God? Southern Milltown Script Awakening Frontier Muses Go Bloody West Theater Grotessco Vacquero, Ride On Star-Crossed Cowboy Horse Sense and Human Fate A Sorry Tale Live or Die, Brother? The Final Story

Editorial Reviews

"With tremendous narrative drive, unpretentious grace, and a thorough grasp of McCarthy's themes, Kenneth Lincoln invites the reader into McCarthy's astonishingly creative and dramatic writing. Lincoln's timely study covers writing hybrids of mytho-poetic saga and red-dirt realism for our age. McCarthy's wise, dubious, existential edge reflects on the deepest American themes of regeneration through violence, particularly the roles of men in the creation of our inescapable national identity. His stories ask readers whether a country so created out of blood and greed can ever redeem itself. Lincoln limns the writer's deepest probings with enthusiastic invitations, excellent plot summaries, and thoughtful provocations. Cormac McCarthy allows students and general readers to ask the essential question: Can we survive our own culture of blood and violence?" - Peter Nabokov, Dept. of World Arts and Cultures, UCLA

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