![]() ![]() In chapter two I survey the ecomonstrously evoked landscape in Chapter IV of McCarthy’s novel Blood Meridian, tracking its bookended themes of deathscape, bonescape, and bloodscape, its cosmic nightscapes, and the land’s erasure of the filibusters that travel through it, concluding that these macabre evocations of landscape create rapport with an otherwise ignored environmental background. In chapter one I draw on Morton’s ‘dark ecology’ and the monster theory of Cohen and Beal to sketch a developing theory of the ecomonstrous as an aesthetic and rhetorical strategy that performs an apocalyptic, grotesque, uncanny, and bloody ‘antiecomimesis’ by which the non-human environment is contacted as ‘strange stranger’, thus enabling ‘intimacy with an alien presence’. ![]() This paper develops a novel theory of the ‘ecomonstrous’ by which it performs an ecocritical reading of the fiction of R. ![]()
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