
- Zhou, Jinqiong
Raymond Carver's Short Fiction in the History of Black Humor
- Gebunden,
- Peter Lang
- (2006)
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 ...
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- Raymond Carver's Short Fiction in the History of Black Humor
- Zhou, Jinqiong
- Gebunden, 142 S.
- Sprache: Englisch
- 23 cm
- ISBN-13: 978-0-8204-8620-8
- Titelnr.: 74238924
- Gewicht: 357 g
- Peter Lang (2006)
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