An Analysis of The Road from the Perspective of Community Theory  

作　　者：SUN Wei-lin YU Qiong-yi SUN Xi-jia 

机构地区：[1]Jinling Institute of Technology,Nanjing 210000,Jiangsu Province,China

出　　处：《Journal of Literature and Art Studies》2024年第11期997-1002,共6页文学与艺术研究（英文版）

基　　金：This paper is an interim research finding of the 2024 institutional project of “Integration of Research and Teaching” at Jinling Institute of Technology: “Research on Individual Ethical Writing in Western Climate Novels” and the initiation project for high-level researchers at Jinling Institute of Technology: “Research on the Community Imagination in Contemporary British Climate Novels” (jit-b-202326).

摘　　要：As one of the representatives of Anthropocene fiction, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road focuses on the protagonists’ looking for hope for living. It can be inferred when analyzed with Tönnies’ theory that a community is constructed within the relationship between father and son, together with other characters that are involved in the narration. Accordingly, the changing process of community is demonstrated in a progressive sequence of blood-geopolitics-spirit, revealing a sense of progression in an Anthropocene context. This paper analyzes and explores the process of evolution in three dimensions reflected in the novel: construction, crisis, and the reconstruction of community. It is considered that The Road conveys powerful calls of the yearn for the survival of the individual, which can be regarded as a reflection of the human condition in reality. Meanwhile, its distinct and full-scale evolution of community process expressed in the novel also presents a referentiality to the age of Anthropocene.

关 键 词：ANTHROPOCENE The Road Cormac McCarthy Tönnies community 

分 类 号：I106.4[文学—世界文学]