Ch. 1. Introduction: Critical Context -- Ch. 2. The Cultural and Aesthetic Construction of the Writer in a Depressed America -- Ch. 3. Wilderness and the Natural in Hemingway and Carver: Degradation of the Idyll -- Ch. 4. Alienation and the Grotesque Body in the Fiction of Franz Kafka and Raymond Carver -- Ch. 5. The Function of Family in the Carver Chronotope -- Afterword: Carver Studies Since 1996
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-187) and index
