Neither Sinner nor Saint: Wilderness in Cormac McCarthy’s Novels

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Neither Sinner nor Saint: Wilderness in Cormac McCarthy’s Novels
Original language description
The debate on the topic of wilderness had never been so heated as in the twentieth century. Numerous attempts to preserve certain wild areas in the United States of America evolved into nationwide discussion about the meaning of wilderness for human spirit and its role in the modern man’s environment. From the very beginning people connected the idea of wilderness with strong emotions. From the fear it originally aroused in human beings this relationship gradually evolved into fear of losing wilderness altogether. This development was deeply influenced by growth of environmental awareness in the twentieth century. Since Romanticism, the men of letters became important advocates of wilderness and often accented its importance. Cormac McCarthy belongs to the long line of these authors. McCarthy wrote the majority of his novels in the second half of the twentieth century, right in the midst of the passionate debate on American wilderness. The aim of this chapter is to analyse McCarthy’s approach to this complex topic and its significance in his novels. The main question is in what terms McCarthy describes wilderness and to what extent his wilderness imagery fulfils the various definitions of this complex concept.
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Transnational Interconnections of Nature Studies and the Environmental Humanities
ISBN
978-1-5275-4630-1
Number of pages of the result
17
Pages from-to
83-100
Number of pages of the book
201
Publisher name
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Place of publication
Cambridge
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