This book argues that McCarthy's works convey a profound moral vision, and use
intertextuality, moral philosophy, and questions of genre to advance that vision. It focuses …

This book introduces the concept of'narrative instability'in order to make visible a new trend
in contemporary US popular culture, to analyze this trend's poetics, and to scrutinize its …

Authorship's Wake examines the aftermath of the 1960s critique of the author, epitomized by
Roland Barthes's essay,“The Death of the Author.” This critique has given rise to a body of …

Many of us broadly identify groups of people in certain times and places with particular
property regimes. Consider the association of communist Soviet Union or China with …

In this article, we examine the first season of HBO's TV show Westworld (2016-present) to
analyse whether and how it imagines the American West nostalgically. From the perspective …

Abstract This article examines Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony alongside Ben Fountain's
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk to reveal the centrality of women's textual presence in …

This article reads Percival Everett's 2009 novel Wounded as a narrative of new regionalism
that engages with coalitional politics and reimagines important figures in the Western genre …

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in drama as well as Tony Awards for best play and best actor,
Tracy Letts has emerged as one of the greatest playwrights of the twenty-first century …

In an interview with Contemporary Literature, Jon McGregor, an award-winning British
novelist, mentioned Douglas Coupland as an influence on the use of storytelling as a pivotal …

Blood Meridian: Or, the Evening Redness in the West (1985), the “bloodiest book since The
Iliad,” according to Richard B. Woodward. The novel's depiction of warfare is a remarkable …