Cormac McCarthy’s The Road : Rewriting the Myth of the American West

This article argues that Cormac McCarthy’s latest novel, The Road (2006), marks a clear departure from the interests and aesthetics he showed in his earlier works of fiction. Apart from the fact that the Rhode Island-born writer embarks for a first time in his long career on a popular sci-fi sub-gen...

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Main Author: Aitor Ibarrola-Armendariz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Association for American Studies 2011-09-01
Series:European Journal of American Studies
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/9310