Borrowed Time, Borrowed World and Borrowed Eyes: Care, Ruin and Vision in McCarthy'sThe Roadand Harrison's Ecocriticism

Ben DE BRUYN

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Modern American Literature Studies Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature Contemporary Literature and Criticism

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The following essay discusses Cormac McCarthy's The Road (2006) and its evocation of a post-apocalyptic ecology and memory. Drawing on certain insights from Robert Pogue Harrison's work on the cultural role of forests, gardens and the dead ancestor, it sheds light on various enigmatic aspects of McCarthy's novel, including the unspecified cause of the disaster, the future fate of nature and culture, and the elusive final paragraph.

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2001Thing Theory 2007Seven types of forgetting 2004Ecocriticism 2003The Dominion of the Dead 1985Blood meridian, or, The evening redness in the West 2007The World Without Us 2008Gardens: an essay on the human condition 2008Gardens

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