No More Heroes
Subtitle: Narrative Perspective and Morality in Cormac McCarthy
By: Lydia R. Cooper
Series: Southern literary series
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9780807137215
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: narrative perspective and morality in McCarthy's novels; title: "Word and flesh": narrative and morality in the early Appalachian novels; title: "A dream of shriving": empathy and the aesthetics of confession in Suttree and Blood meridian; title: "Pledged in blood": linguistic interiority and redemption in the border trilogy; title: "He's a psychopathic killer but so what?": moral storytelling in No country for old men; title: "There is no god and we are his prophets": heroism and prophetic narrative in The road; title: Conclusion: finding heroism through empathy in McCarthy's novels.