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Dave: IMG Jim Lynch Makes Landscape Art... Out of Text

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jimlynchIf Carl Hiaasen set one of his novels on a residential stretch of boundary line between British Columbia and Washington, or if Richard Russo's characters had relatives in the Pacific Northwest, the result might be something like Jim Lynch's Border Songs. Continue »
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Studies in Major Literary Authors #23: The Carver Chronotope: Contextualizing Raymond Carver

by P. Bhatt

Studies in Major Literary Authors #23: The Carver Chronotope: Contextualizing Raymond Carver Cover

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Publisher Comments:

Arguing that, despite having worked primarily in "minor" genres, Raymond Carver merits consideration as a major American writer, "The Carver Chronotypen 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."
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780415966337
Subtitle:
Contextualizing Raymond Carver
Author:
Bhatt, P.
Author:
Lainsbury, G. P.
Author:
Lainsbury G. P.
Publisher:
Routledge
Location:
New York
Subject:
General
Subject:
Postmodernism
Subject:
Postmodernism (Literature)
Subject:
Working class in literature.
Subject:
Middle class in literature.
Series:
Studies in major literary authors ;
Series Volume:
2002-30v. 23
Publication Date:
June 2003
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Pages:
224
Dimensions:
9.28x6.46x.65 in. .89 lbs.
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