TY - BOOK ID - 80875189 TI - The Carver chronotope PY - 2004 SN - 020349802X 9780203498026 9780415966337 0415966337 0415966337 9781135888275 9781135888312 9781135888329 9780415803489 0203605128 1280019735 0415803489 PB - New York Routledge DB - UniCat KW - Postmodernism (Literature) KW - Working class in literature. KW - Middle class in literature. KW - Middle classes in literature KW - Labor and laboring classes in literature KW - Carver, Raymond, KW - Carver, Raymond B. KW - Carver, Ray KW - Carver, Raymond Clevie KW - Criticism and interpretation. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80875189 AB - Raymond Carver's fiction is widely known for its careful documentation of lower-middle-class North America in the 1970s and 80s. Building upon the realist understanding of Carver's work, Raymond Carver's Chronotope uses a central concept of Bakhtin's novelistics to formulate a new context for understanding the celebrated author's minimalist fiction. G. P. Lainsbury describes the critical reception of Carver's work and stakes out his own intellectual and imaginative territory by arguing that Carver's fiction can be understood as diffuse, fragmentary, and randomly ordered. Offering a fresh analy ER -