Jinqiong Zhou

Gebundenes Buch

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

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

The Author: Jingqiong Zhou is Associate Professor at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, People¿s Republic of China. She obtained her doctorate from the University of Hong Kong and teaches graduate-level American fiction and undergraduate-level American studies courses. Zhou is also the author of Contemporary American Culture and Society (2003).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 68620
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 165mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 357g
• ISBN-13: 9780820486208
• ISBN-10: 0820486205
• Artikelnr.: 26960389