Original scientific paper
Language and power George Orwell’s 1984 and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road as sources for a critical study on ecclesial discursivity and hermeneutic
Roberto Ranieri
Abstract
This work analyzes two post–apocalyptic novels written in very different times and cultures: George Orwell’s masterpiece Nineteen Eighty–Four, published in 1949, and Cormac McCarthy’s The road, Pulitzer Prize in 2007. It is assumed that they both are a philosophical understanding of totalitarianism, and this is the reason why here they are considered relevant as sources of reflections about power. More specifically, the way the authors describe and use language, such as
the Newspeak in Nineteen Eighty–Four or the dialogues between the father and the son in The Road, represent two very different, by some extent polar opposite models of exerting power. In its conclusions, the comparative study suggests some critical issue concerning the way in which language is used by contemporary theology and ecclesial discursive.
Keywords
Cormac McCarthy; Discursivity; George Orwell; Hermeneutic; Language; Power
Hrčak ID:
173538
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Publication date:
10.1.2017.
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