The Limits of Language as the Limits of the World: Cormac McCarthy’s and David Markson’s Post-Apocalyptic Novels
The article examines the correlation between the world and the word in two novels which engage with a post-apocalyptic scenario: David Markson’s Wittgenstein’s Mistress (1988) and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006). Shifting the focus from the very event of catastrophe to the notion of survival throu...
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| Language: | English |
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Lodz University Press
2015-11-01
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| Series: | Text Matters |
| Online Access: | https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/textmatters/article/view/6541 |