Ralph Waldo Emerson versus Cormac McCarthy: The Annihilation of Emerson’s Values in McCarthy’s The Road
Focusing on the significant and also ambivalent role that nature has always played in American literature and culture, the article examines the striking contrast between Emerson’s description of nature in his essay “Nature“ (1836) and McCarthy’s approach to the same subject in his novel The“...
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| Language: | English |
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Regensburg: Current objectives in postgraduate American studies c/o Universität Regensburg/Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
2012-03-01
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| Series: | Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies |
| Online Access: | https://copas.uni-regensburg.de/index.php/copas/article/view/129 |