Add to ORKGThough it never names its ecological catastrophe, The Road is increasingly read as a climate change novel. I explore how this narrative of father and son walking a dead landscape speaks to contemporary environmental concerns. Adapting apocalyptic techniques, it contrasts a lost humanity (that is, being both human and humane) against present inhumanity, locating the measure of humanity in the father's care for his son. Thus, the novel resonates with contemporary anxieties about caring for the future, anxieties often expressed in the figure of the child. The novel's conclusion, however, affords the opportunity of rising above such anxieties
This essay is based on the novel The Road by Cormac McCarthy (2006), a futuristic novel in which t...
Massively disruptive climate change, now inevitable, is the worst tragedy which human beings have ye...
This article is to look at literature or narratives as a useful tool for recognizing the hidden cris...
Though it never names its ecological catastrophe, The Road is increasingly read as a climate change ...
Cormac McCarthy’s The Road tends to be lumped in with the emerging post-apocalyptic genre as a whole...
In its explicit engagement with the possibility of human extinction, the Anthropocene thesis might b...
26 p. -- Bibliogr.: p. 25-26Literature and art have always been reflections of the reality of each e...
With the intensification of the impact of human activities on the Earth’s systems, humankind has ent...
In 1971, activist-author Wendell Berry, writing about the Red River Gorge in his beloved Kentucky, i...
Climate change is problematic to the imagination; it is highly complex, vast and possesses character...
As a global population, inclusive of humans, fauna, and flora, we are each subject, though dispropor...
Climate change is becoming a major theme in the contemporary novel, as authors reflect concerns in ...
During times of existential unease, post-apocalyptic fiction imagines a depopulated world—a world de...
The publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring in 1962 triggered widespread concerns for the envir...
Over the last few decades, the post-apocalyptic genre has been the star of the science fiction scene...
This essay is based on the novel The Road by Cormac McCarthy (2006), a futuristic novel in which t...
Massively disruptive climate change, now inevitable, is the worst tragedy which human beings have ye...
This article is to look at literature or narratives as a useful tool for recognizing the hidden cris...
Though it never names its ecological catastrophe, The Road is increasingly read as a climate change ...
Cormac McCarthy’s The Road tends to be lumped in with the emerging post-apocalyptic genre as a whole...
In its explicit engagement with the possibility of human extinction, the Anthropocene thesis might b...
26 p. -- Bibliogr.: p. 25-26Literature and art have always been reflections of the reality of each e...
With the intensification of the impact of human activities on the Earth’s systems, humankind has ent...
In 1971, activist-author Wendell Berry, writing about the Red River Gorge in his beloved Kentucky, i...
Climate change is problematic to the imagination; it is highly complex, vast and possesses character...
As a global population, inclusive of humans, fauna, and flora, we are each subject, though dispropor...
Climate change is becoming a major theme in the contemporary novel, as authors reflect concerns in ...
During times of existential unease, post-apocalyptic fiction imagines a depopulated world—a world de...
The publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring in 1962 triggered widespread concerns for the envir...
Over the last few decades, the post-apocalyptic genre has been the star of the science fiction scene...
This essay is based on the novel The Road by Cormac McCarthy (2006), a futuristic novel in which t...
Massively disruptive climate change, now inevitable, is the worst tragedy which human beings have ye...
This article is to look at literature or narratives as a useful tool for recognizing the hidden cris...