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Author Lainsbury, G. P., 1962-

Title The Carver chronotope : inside the life-world of Raymond Carver's fiction / G.P. Lainsbury
Published New York : Routledge, 2004
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 193 pages)
Series Studies in major literary authors ; v. 23
Studies in major literary authors ; v. 23.
Contents Introduction Critical Context -- The Cultural and Aesthetic Construction of the Writer in a Depressed America -- The Figure of the Writer in the Carver Chronotope -- The Writer as Apprentice -- Wilderness and the Natural in Hemingway and Carver: Degradation of the Idyll -- Wilderness and the Natural -- The Wilderness Idyll in Hemingway's Stories -- Carver Rewriting Hemingway: Idyllic Wilderness in "Pastoral"/"The Cabin" -- Treatment of the Wilderness Idyll in Other Stories by Raymond Carver -- Supplement: A Brief Consideration of the Wilderness Idyll in Raymond Carver's Poetry -- Alienation and the Grotesque Body in the Fiction of Franz Kafka and Raymond Carver -- The Function of Family in the Carver Chronotope 95 Introduction: Family Life -- Relations between Children and Parents -- Relations between Parents and Children -- Coda: Writer and Wife -- Afterword: Carver Studies Since 1996
Summary Raymond Carver's fiction is widely known for its careful documentation of lower-middle-class North America in the 1970s and 80s. Building upon the realist understanding of Carver's work, Raymond Carver's Chronotope uses a central concept of Bakhtin's novelistics to formulate a new context for understanding the celebrated author's minimalist fiction. G.P. Lainsbury describes the critical reception of Carver's work and stakes out his own intellectual and imaginative territory by arguing that Carver's fiction can be understood as diffuse, fragmentary, and randomly ordered. Offering a fresh analy
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-187) and index
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Subject Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988 fast
Subject Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States
Working class in literature.
Middle class in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Middle class in literature
Postmodernism (Literature)
Working class in literature
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 020349802X
9780203498026
9780415966337
0415966337