What Else Can Nature Mean: An Ecocritical Perspective on Cormac McCarthy’s Fiction
Identifikátory výsledku
Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI
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Výsledek na webu
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Alternativní jazyky
Jazyk výsledku
angličtina
Název v původním jazyce
What Else Can Nature Mean: An Ecocritical Perspective on Cormac McCarthy’s Fiction
Popis výsledku v původním jazyce
Cormac McCarthy’s natural imagery has always attracted critical attention as a significant aspect of his fiction, since the mere volume of natural descriptions indicates their importance in the texts. However, McCarthy’s nature was broadly perceived as symbolic, or as a setting device embedding the works in the the environments of Tennessee and the West. McCarthy’s natural imagery was first thoroughly studied by Georg Guillemin and Dianne C. Luce in their monographs The Pastoral Vision of Cormac McCarthy (2004) and Reading the World: Cormac McCarthy’s Tennessee Period (2009). Since then, other critics such as Andrew Keller Estes have explored various aspects of McCarthy’s natural imagery and the relationship between the human and non-human world and contributed to discussion on McCarthy’s natural environment and its functions in the texts. Following ecocritical theoretical framework of Lawrence Buell who suggests understanding nature and culture as inseparable domains with mutual influence instead of seeing them as isolated counterparts, this paper argues that reading McCarthy’s novels with environmental awareness significantly alters their interpretation. The analysis of McCarthy’s method of describing the natural environment and processes demonstrates that McCarthy’s nature should not be interpreted as a purely aesthetic object, but rather as a means towards the revision of American history, and that his critical stance towards anthropocentrism reveals the ethical orientation of his fiction.
Název v anglickém jazyce
What Else Can Nature Mean: An Ecocritical Perspective on Cormac McCarthy’s Fiction
Popis výsledku anglicky
Cormac McCarthy’s natural imagery has always attracted critical attention as a significant aspect of his fiction, since the mere volume of natural descriptions indicates their importance in the texts. However, McCarthy’s nature was broadly perceived as symbolic, or as a setting device embedding the works in the the environments of Tennessee and the West. McCarthy’s natural imagery was first thoroughly studied by Georg Guillemin and Dianne C. Luce in their monographs The Pastoral Vision of Cormac McCarthy (2004) and Reading the World: Cormac McCarthy’s Tennessee Period (2009). Since then, other critics such as Andrew Keller Estes have explored various aspects of McCarthy’s natural imagery and the relationship between the human and non-human world and contributed to discussion on McCarthy’s natural environment and its functions in the texts. Following ecocritical theoretical framework of Lawrence Buell who suggests understanding nature and culture as inseparable domains with mutual influence instead of seeing them as isolated counterparts, this paper argues that reading McCarthy’s novels with environmental awareness significantly alters their interpretation. The analysis of McCarthy’s method of describing the natural environment and processes demonstrates that McCarthy’s nature should not be interpreted as a purely aesthetic object, but rather as a means towards the revision of American history, and that his critical stance towards anthropocentrism reveals the ethical orientation of his fiction.
Klasifikace
Druh
J<sub>ost</sub> - Ostatní články v recenzovaných periodicích
CEP obor
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OECD FORD obor
60206 - Specific literatures
Návaznosti výsledku
Projekt
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Návaznosti
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Ostatní
Rok uplatnění
2019
Kód důvěrnosti údajů
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Údaje specifické pro druh výsledku
Název periodika
Theory and Practice in English Studies
ISSN
1805-0859
e-ISSN
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Svazek periodika
8
Číslo periodika v rámci svazku
2
Stát vydavatele periodika
CZ - Česká republika
Počet stran výsledku
17
Strana od-do
43-60
Kód UT WoS článku
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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus
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