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

"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."--Jacket.

שנה

2006

שפה

English

הוצאה

Peter Lang Publishing

מהדורות

1

עמודים

142

ISBN

9780820486208

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata