Arguing that, despite having worked primarily in minor genres, Raymond Carver merits consideration as a major American writer, The Carver Chronotype reveals Carver's pivotal role in American minimalist fiction. It contextualizes Carver's work in terms of the time and place of its construction and represention to reveal it as fiction that transcends the lower middle class North American relity that it documents.
Arguing that, despite having worked primarily in minor genres, Raymond Carver merits consideration as a major American writer, The Carver Chronotype r...
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, this book uses a central concept of Bakhtin's novelistics to formulate a fresh context for understanding the celebrated author's minimalist fiction.
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 rea...
