The Tennis Shoe Army and Leviathan: Relics and Specters of Big Government in The Road
| Autor: | Robert Pirro |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Cultural Studies
History lcsh:United States Literature and Literary Theory Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development lcsh:HM401-1281 lcsh:History America Politics State (polity) State of nature lcsh:E-F Parallels media_common Government state of nature The Road Thomas Hobbes lcsh:Sociology (General) lcsh:E151-889 Aesthetics Leviathan Bureaucracy post-apocalypse Big government Social Sciences (miscellaneous) |
| Zdroj: | European Journal of American Studies, Vol 12, Iss 3 (2017) |
| ISSN: | 1991-9336 |
| Popis: | Differently than many other post-apocalyptic stories, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road offers scant evidence of either the influence of political events or ideas or of an authorial ambition to construct a vision of political order. To the extent that parallels can be drawn between the novel’s presentation of a tennis shoe army on the march, which resembles dream-like processions in other McCarthy novels, and Thomas Hobbes’ vision of an absolutist government as Leviathan, this essay argues that The Road can be seen as conveying an aversion to the impersonal rule of the bureaucratic state. |
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