Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER ONE Introduction; CHAPTER TWO The Cultural and Aesthetic Construction of the Writer in a Depressed America; CHAPTER THREE Wilderness and the Natural in Hemingway and Carver; CHAPTER FOUR Alienation and the Grotesque Body in the Fiction of Franz Kafka and Raymond Carver; CHAPTER FIVE The Function of Family in the Carver Chronotope; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Raymond Carver merits consideration as a major American writer, The Carver Chronotype reveals Carver's pivotal role in American minimalist fiction
