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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813298703321

Autore

Fachard Vasiliki

Titolo

Not far from here : the Paris Symposium on Raymond Carver / / edited by Vasiliki Fachard and Robert Miltner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, [United Kingdom] : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014

2014

ISBN

1-4438-5856-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (160 p.)

Disciplina

813.54

Soggetti

American poetry - 20th century

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.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; BIOGRAPHICAL STUDIES; TEXTUAL STUDIES; BEGINNERS' LUCK; FROM "BEGINNERS" TO "WHAT WE TALK . . . "; FILM AND VISUAL STUDIES; 'SO WHY WOULD I WANT A PHOTOGRAPHOF THIS TRAGEDY?'; ATHREATENING FETISH; LITERARY STUDIES; SIGNS VS. SYMBOLS; LACK AND LEFTOVERS; LITERARY STUDIES; CELEBRATING THE MOMENT; 'WAITING FOR WHAT? I'D LIKE TO KNOW'; CONTRIBUTORS; PERMISSIONS; INDEX OF NAMES AND WORKS

Sommario/riassunto

Hailed as the ""American Chekhov"" by the Times Literary Supplement, Raymond Carver is the most popular and influential American short-story writer since Ernest Hemingway. His works have been adapted to film and translated into more than twenty languages. Yet despite this international appeal, the critical attention to his writing has originated mostly in the US. In an attempt to expand the scope and range of Carver criticism, Not Far From Here: The Paris Symposium on Raymond Carver - based o...