Embodying place: An ecotheological reading of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road

The blackened landscape of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006) suggests the possibility of a future restoration of the earth through the survival of the nameless boy, who is variously figured as a fire-carrier and more specifically, as the Word of God, a chalice holder, a tabernacle. McCarthy’s privil...

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Published in:Christianity & literature
Main Author: Russell, Richard Rankin 1972- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Johns Hopkins University Press [2016]
In: Christianity & literature
RelBib Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
KBQ North America
NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics
TK Recent history
Further subjects:B Gerard Manley Hopkins
B Cormac McCarthy
B ROAD, The (Book : McCarthy)
B Christianity
B Ecotheology
B Environmentalism Religious aspects Christianity
B Environmental Protection Religious aspects
B Deep Incarnation
B MCCARTHY, Cormac, 1933-
B Word of God (Christian theology)
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