Absurdity and Revolt in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road

PhaenEx 7 (1):221-243 (2012)
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Abstract

Camus’ notions of absurdity and revolt remain relevant today, especially with respect to very recent developments in the growing role of electronic and digital mass media. Cormac McCarthy’s 2006 novel The Road , describing a father and child’s journey after the world as we know it has been destroyed, is used to highlight the nature of absurdity and revolt in their updated early 21 st century version

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