语象叙事作为一个重要的文艺理论，日益被人们关注和重视，从广义上讲，语象叙事认为所有再现都是文字和意象的异质融合体。以“言”及“象”是语象叙事的重要内容，亦是文学创作的重要修辞技巧。以“言”及“象”指通过词语激发读者的图像想象。就科马克·麦卡锡的《路》来说，虽然小说中的末日是虚构的，但是作者通过深厚的文字功底使得并不存在的末日景象具体地再现于读者的脑海，实现了语象叙事的作用。本文将分析语象叙事在《路》中的体现，通过分析《路》的镜头语言、情景描述、审美趣味和主题呈现等，分析语象叙事的再现和审美功能。

《路》被认为是一部后启示录式的寓言性小说，书中对末日的荒芜、暴力、绝望的详细刻画，深深地触动了人们的内心，使他们与角色产生共鸣。它讲述了一对无名的父子在不知名的灾难后艰难求生的故事。《路》使用第三人称视角和第一人称视角来描绘主人公眼中的世界，栩栩如生地再现了末日的可怕景象。麦卡锡的文字精炼且极具画面感，能够极大地激发读者的感官和想象，并在脑海中生成具体的场景，起到一种视觉叙事的效果，丰富阅读体验。末日意象背后蕴含的是麦卡锡对人性善恶以及人类未来的深刻反思。《路》是麦卡锡回归传统人文主义的代表之作，他认为，唯有好人才能传承文明的火种, 救赎人类。

As a crucial literary theory, Ekphrasis has been increasingly valued by the scholarship. In the broad sense, Ekphrasis means that every representation is a heterogeneous fusion of words and images. From word to image (Enargeia) is an essential aspect of Ekphrasis and a crucial rhetorical technique in literary creation. Enargeia refers to using words and expressions to evoke readers’ visual imagination. As for Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, although the doomsday in the novel is fictional, McCarthy vividly and successfully depicts it and makes it actualized, thus realizing the effect and function of Ekphrasis. This thesis will analyse the representations of Ekphrasis in The Road, including camera language, scenario descriptions, aesthetic taste and theme presentation, to explore the representations and aesthetic function of Ekphrasis.

Often recognized as a post-apocalyptic allegorical novel, The Road portrays desolation, violence and despair in detail, which incisively touches the audience to identify with the characters. It tells the story of a nameless father and his son struggling to survive after an unknown apocalypse. Based on the combination of a third-person and first-person perspective, The Road devotes most of its length to depicting the world as seen through the eyes of the father, bringing to life a horrible vision of the apocalypse. McCarthy’s words are concise and highly graphic, which can significantly stimulate readers’ imagination and generate specific scenes, playing a visual narrative effect with diverse and multiple reading experiences. What is behind the doomsday images is McCarthy’s in-depth reflection on the good and evil of human nature and the future of human beings. The Road is a representative work of McCarthy’s return to traditional humanism that advocates the goodness of humanity. He deems that only good guys can carry the fire of civilization and ultimately save human beings.