| Description |
326 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Studies in major literary authors |
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Studies in major literary authors.
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| Contents |
Ch. 1. Reassessing Indeterminacy's Importance: An Examination of the Unreliable Narrators in Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? -- Ch. 2. "What's in Alaska?": Symbolic Significance in the Commonplace -- Ch. 3. The Education of Ralph Wyman: The Epistemological Theme in "Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?" -- Ch. 4. Catatonic Realism?: Further Analysis of Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? -- Ch. 5. Omission in What We Talk About When We Talk About Love -- Ch. 6. Excessive Authorial Control?: More Analysis of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love -- Ch. 7. Isolation and Withdrawal: The Still Bleak Prospects for Carver's Characters in Cathedral -- Ch. 8. Communication in the Final Stories -- Ch. 9. Raymond Carver's Poetic Technique -- Ch. 10. A Thematic Guide to Carver's Poetry -- Metapoetry and Tributes -- Alcoholism -- Marriage and Family -- Nature -- Death and Beyond -- Ch. 11. Conclusion |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-311) and index |
| Subject |
Carver, Raymond -- Criticism and interpretation
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Carver, Raymond -- Technique
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Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.
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Realism in literature.
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| LC no. |
2001016219 |
| ISBN |
0815340400 (alk. paper) |
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