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000031210 1001_ $$aRomeo Pellicer, Andrea
000031210 24500 $$aThe New Apocalypse: Articulating Postmodern Nightmares in Paul Auster’s In the Country of Last Things and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
000031210 260__ $$aZaragoza$$bUniversidad de Zaragoza$$c2014
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000031210 520__ $$aThe cultural and philosophical effects of postmodernism have transformed the fictional representations of apocalypse in a decisive—and unprecedented—way. This study focuses on how two contemporary post-apocalyptic novels, Paul Auster’s In the Country of Last Things and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, combine the traditional ethos of the subgenre with the consequences of the new postmodern condition. As a detailed analysis evidences, both narratives show the displacement of the End to a Godless and meaningless world—an Eliotian physical and emotional waste land—where characters face metaphysical orphanage and epistemological uncertainty. This master dissertation contends that both works explore which is the position of language for a group of survivors doomed to inhabit the resulting post-apocalyptic and poststructuralist abyss. Ultimately, both novels introduce the notion of trauma to give new relevance to the communicative aspect of language —a fact which poses an idea of universal resonance: that, in this new postmodern Armageddon era, only dialoguing and connecting with others can lead to survival.
000031210 521__ $$aGraduado en Estudios Ingleses
000031210 540__ $$aDerechos regulados por licencia Creative Commons
000031210 700__ $$aCollado Rodríguez, Francisco$$edir.
000031210 7102_ $$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bFilología Inglesa y Alemana$$cFilología Inglesa
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000031210 8564_ $$s536734$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/31210/files/TAZ-TFG-2014-2798.pdf$$yMemoria (spa)$$zMemoria (spa)
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000031210 951__ $$adeposita:2015-04-21
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