No More Heroes Narrative Perspective and Morality in Cormac McCarthy by Cooper, Lydia R - 2011

Louisiana State University Press, 2011-05-03. Hardcover. Good.

Louisiana State University Press, 2011-05-03. Hardcover. Used:Good.

Louisiana State Univ Pr, 2011. Hardcover. New. 216 pages. 8.75x5.75x1.00 inches.

Louisiana State Univ Pr, 2011. Hardcover. New. 216 pages. 8.75x5.75x1.00 inches.

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Hardback. New. Critics often trace the prevailing mood of despair and purported nihilism in the works of Cormac McCarthy to the striking absence of interior thought in his seemingly amoral characters. In No More Heroes, however, Lydia Cooper reveals that though McCarthy limits inner revelations, he never eliminates them entirely. In certain crucial cases, he endows his characters with ethical decisions and attitudes, revealing a strain of heroism exists in his otherwise violent and apocalyptic world. Cooper evaluates all of McCarthy's work to date, carefully exploring the range of his narrative techniques. The writer's overwhelmingly distant, omniscient third-person narrative rarely shifts to a more limited voice. When it does deviate, however, revelations of his characters' consciousness unmistakably exhibit moral awareness and ethical behavior. The quiet, internal struggles of moral men such as John Grady Cole in The Border Trilogy and the father in The Road demonstrate an imperfect… Read More

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