A Critical Context for the Carver Chronotope
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8895142 |
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| Authors | G P Lainsbury (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 77-92 |
| Publication date | 1997-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras-027-01-04 |
| OpenAlex | W2018605362 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
Raymond Carver (1938-88) is often credited with single-handedly inspiring a renaissance of the short story in America, and with giving voice to a submerged population, who before his time had not been adequately recognized in the cultural space of American literature.1 Carver devoted his whole career as a writer to working within two genres—the short story and the lyric poem—both of which are, within the context of late twentieth- century literature and culture, assuredly minor artistic genres. And yet, in spite of working within these marginal genres, Carver somehow managed to create some major artistic and cultural effects. His writing has the ability to affect individual readers, including many who do not usually read literature,2 and is a lightning rod for cultural and aesthetic debate surrounding issues of the writer's role in contemporary North American life
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Chronotope · Context (archaeology · Literature · Poetry · The Renaissance · History · Poetry Analysis and Criticism · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies · Short Stories in Global Literature
| Highly cited | No |
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