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"The way of the world is to bloom and flower and die": the palindrome of knowing in Cormac McCarthy's The Road
… the characters who interact with it. With The Road, McCarthy offers his clearest presentation of meaning as it pertains to human knowing. In this presentation, McCarthy explores knowing through a beginning-in-ending, or palindromatic scheme; he arrives at the origins of knowing by reaching its …
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Trancending meaninglessness : seeking the meaning of life in the post-apocalyptic scenarios of J. Crace and C. McCarthy
… Crace’s The Pesthouse and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Meaninglessness is analysed on a theoretical level in terms of evil. The thrust of the argument is that when approached in the appropriate manner, the dichotomy of good and evil can be transcended. Life can be bestowed with meaning even when …