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. INDICE: 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 - Theatre Grotessco - Vacquero, Ride On - Star-Crossed Cowboy - Horse Sense and Human Fate - A Sorry Tale- Live or Die, Brother? - The Final Story
- ISBN: 978-0-230-61967-8
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 208
- Fecha Publicación: 10/02/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés