Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction. An American Apocalypse?
Chapter 1. Sanguinary Signifiers: The Dis|Orderly Language of Myth, Violence, and Entropy
Chapter 2. Dissolved in a Pale and Broken Image: Pastoralism, Mimesis, and Dis|Order in The Orchard Keeper
Chapter 3. Order in the Woods and in Men’s Souls: Gothic Psychomythology and Scapegoating in Child of God
Chapter 4. A Sense of Judgment: Myth, Christianity, and Cosmic Disorder in Outer Dark
Chapter 5. Degeneration through Violence: The Apocalyptic Logic of Blood Meridian
Chapter 6. An Apocalyptic Journey: Revelation, Conversion, and the Different Ends of The Road
Conclusion. At the Crossroads of Life and Death
Notes
Bibliography
Index