Lainsbury The Carver Chronotope

Contextualizing Raymond Carver
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-1-135-88831-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Major Literary Authors

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 analysis of Carver's body of work, this book offers an extensive meditation on this major figure in postmodern U.S. fiction.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lainsbury, G.P.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
1. Introduction and Critical Context
2. 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
3. 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
A Brief Consideration of the Wilderness Idyll in Raymond Carver's Poetry
4. Alienation and the Grotesque Body in the Fiction of Franz Kafka and Raymond Carver
5. The Function of Family in the Carver Chronotope
Family Life
Relations Between Children and Parents
Relations Between Parents and Children
Coda: Writer and Wife
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index