Abstrakt
This contribution intends to present an overview of major natural images with ecological undertones in all ten novels written by Cormac McCarthy. Nature has always been a substantial part both of the novels themselves and the criticism concerned with McCarthy.
In recent years, the ecocritical or environmental readings of McCarthy have begun to dominate the study of nature in his novels. This paper follows the work of Georg Guillemin, Andrew Keller Estes and others and focuses on the key images of nature and the relationship between the human and non-human world.
An ecocritical terminology as presented in the work of Lawrence Buell is used for naming crucial concepts. The intention is to read McCarthy's novelistic oeuvre as a whole and to demonstrate how certain images reappear and intensify throughout the novels, and therefore become a crucial aspect of their interpretation.