Anti-Matters: Mortal Ethics in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
This article proposes that to understand the ethical and philosophical dimensions of Cormac McCarthy’s work one must engage in an articulation of mortal ethics. To do this, it is necessary to understand how The Road depicts the material destruction of the world, and the ethical consequences such phy...
Main Author: | Patrick Damien O’Connor |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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European Association for American Studies
2017-11-01
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Series: | European Journal of American Studies |
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Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/12337 |
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