| Description |
1 online resource (193 pages) |
| Series |
American literature readings in the 21st century |
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American literature readings in the 21st century.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-183) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
McCarthy, Cormac, 1933- fast |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American fiction
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780230617841 |
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0230617840 |
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