Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: narrative perspective and morality in McCarthy's novels
  • "Word and flesh": narrative and morality in the early Appalachian novels
  • "A dream of shriving": empathy and the aesthetics of confession in Suttree and Blood meridian
  • "Pledged in blood": linguistic interiority and redemption in the border trilogy
  • "He's a psychopathic killer but so what?": moral storytelling in No country for old men
  • "There is no god and we are his prophets": heroism and prophetic narrative in The road
  • Conclusion: finding heroism through empathy in McCarthy's novels.