Raymond Carver's Short Fiction in the History of Black Humor

ISBN-13: 9780820486208 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 142 str.

Opis

This first book-length study on the black humor in Raymond Carver s work includes valuable interpretations of Carver s aesthetics as well as the psycho-social implications of his short fiction. The presence of an indeterminate -menace- in the oppressive situations of black humor in Carver as compared to a European tradition of existentialist writing and his American predecessors including Twain, Heller, Barth and others is mitigated through humor so it is not dominant. As a result, a subtle promise emerges in the characters lives."

O autorze

The Author: Jingqiong Zhou is Associate Professor at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, People's Republic of China. She obtained her doctorate from the University of Hong Kong and teaches graduate-level American fiction and undergraduate-level American studies courses. Zhou is also the author of Contemporary American Culture and Society (2003).