American Literature Readings in the 21st Century

American Canticles

By: K. Lincoln

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Hardcover | 1 March 2009 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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"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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Acknowledgments	p. xi
Headnote: Penetrant and Simple: The Common Reader	p. 1
Prologue: Western Storykeeper: Life and Times	p. 5
Canticles Down West: Hyperrealism	p. 17
Back to Appalachia: The Orchard Keeper	p. 31
Dark Is a Way: Outer Dark	p. 39
Child of Whose God? Child of God	p. 49
Southern Milltown Script: The Gardener's Son	p. 61
Awakening Frontier Muses: Suttree	p. 69
Go Bloody West: Blood Meridian	p. 79
Theater Grotessco: The Stonemason	p. 91
Vacquero, Ride On: All the Pretty Horses	p. 101
Star-Crossed Cowboy: The Crossing	p. 113
Horse Sense and Human Fate: Cities of the Plain	p. 129
A Sorry Tale: No Country for Old Men	p. 141
Live or Die, Brother? The Sunset Limited	p. 155
The Final Story: The Road	p. 163
Epilogue: No End	p. 175
Selected Criticism	p. 179
About the Author	p. 185
Index	p. 187
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