Cormac McCarthy

Issue 4.1 Previous Issues

Litter, Landscape and The Road

Antony Mullen February 27, 2015 No Comments contemporary fiction contemporary literature Cormac McCarthy Cultural Landscapes dystopia literature post-9/11 literature post-apocalyptic fiction postmodernism trauma

Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006) presents a dystopian vision of a near-future world in which most organic vegetation has died and human life is becoming increasingly rare. It is not unusual for dystopian fiction to …

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Issue 1.2 Previous Issues

On Nuclear Criticism

Christopher Daley July 1, 2012 2 Comments anti-Iraq protest apocalyptic literature Cold War contemporary literature Cormac McCarthy deterrent Diacritics Guide to Armageddon Jacques Derrida nuclear criticism Protect and Survive Riddley Walker Russell Hoban Threads

In 1984, the journal Diacritics set out to define what it labelled as the developing academic terrain of ‘nuclear criticism’. The opening section of the journal entitled…

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