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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
Meaning has been the topic of much commentary on Cormac McCarthy’s work. Critics posit an array of conclusions about meaning in his corpus, ranging from its impossibility to its excess. Much work concludes that if meaning exists, it is generated from an interplay between the natural world that …
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Trancending meaninglessness : seeking the meaning of life in the post-apocalyptic scenarios of J. Crace and C. McCarthy
The meaning of life is always an intriguing issue. This research paper explores the lack of meaning put forward in the post-apocalyptic scenarios of Jim 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 …