1st Edition

The Carver Chronotope Contextualizing Raymond Carver

By G.P. Lainsbury Copyright 2004
206 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Cultural and Aesthetic Construction of the Writer in a Depressed America; Chapter 3 Wilderness and the Natural in Hemingway and Carver; Chapter 4 Alienation and the Grotesque Body in the Fiction of Franz Kafka and Raymond Carver; Chapter 5 The Function of Family in the Carver Chronotope; Afterword;

Biography

G.P. Lainsbury