The Carver chronotope [[electronic resource] ] : inside the life-world of Raymond Carver's fiction / / G. P. Lainsbury

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783830903321
• Autore: Lainsbury G. P. <1962->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Routledge, 2004
• ISBN: 0-203-49802-X; 0-203-60512-8; 1-280-01973-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (198 p.)
• Collana: Studies in major literary authors ; ; v. 23
• Disciplina: 813/.54
• Soggetti: Postmodernism (Literature) - United States; Working class in literature; Middle class in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-187) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; THE CARVER CHRONOTOPE: Inside the Life-World of Raymond Carver's Fiction; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER ONE Introduction Critical Context; CHAPTER TWO 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; CHAPTER THREE 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 CARVERSUPPLEMENT: A BRIEF CONSIDERATION OF THE WILDERNESS IDYLL IN RAYMOND CARVER'S POETRY; CHAPTER FOUR Alienation and the Grotesque Body in the Fiction of Franz Kafka and Raymond Carver; CHAPTER FIVE The Function of Family in the Carver Chronotope; INTRODUCTION: FAMILY LIFE; RELATIONS BETWEEN CHILDREN AND PARENTS; RELATIONS BETWEEN PARENTS AND CHILDREN; CODA: WRITER AND WIFE; Afterword: Carver Studies Since 1996; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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