Hell On Earth: A Modern Day Inferno in Cormac McCarthy's The Road

Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Dante's the Inferno contain textual and thematic comparisons. While the Inferno creates a world that exhibits the worst fears of the medieval Catholic subconscious of Dante's time, The Road paints a world of the darkest fears of the current American subc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lane, Emily
Format: Others
Published: ScholarWorks@UNO 2010
Subjects:
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Online Access:http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1127
http://scholarworks.uno.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2108&context=td