The Poetics of Size: Rendering Apocalyptic Scale in Nevil Shute’s On the Beach and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
This article examines the textual rendering of space in Nevil Shute’s On the Beach (1957) and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006), two novels depicting the ancient trope of apocalypse. Contributing to the study of geography in literature, it argues that these authors manipulate perspective, language a...
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| Language: | English |
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Monash University
2018-12-01
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| Series: | Colloquy: Text, Theory, Critique |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.26180/5c11d9862cd22 |