Cormac McCarthy: American Canticles (American Literature Readings in the 21st Century) - Softcover

Lincoln, K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0230619673 ISBN 13: 9780230619678

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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.

About this title

About the Author:

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

Review:

"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

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0230619673
• ISBN 13: 9780230619678
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 193