Minimalism In Raymond Carvers Collectors

Author : Mathias Keller
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638754057
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Minimalism in Raymond Carver's Collectors written by Mathias Keller and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, http: //www.uni-jena.de/ (Institute for English/ Amererican Studies), course: Hauptseminar, 21 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In the seemingly simple low-rent tragedy "Collectors", Carver's most minimalistic story, a salesman for vacuum cleaners enters the house and life of the I-narrator. A multitude of blanks and, moreover, unfamiliar events and actions contribute to a large extend to the high potential of anxiety of the story. In the following, I will first reveal the most significant blanks concerning the setting, the point of view and the two protagonists. By doing so, I will also attempt to fill them. Secondly, I will analyze what is unfamiliar in the story and how events and actions of the two characters amplify the, on the whole, uncanny situation. Finally, I will sum up the main findings of my analysis and evaluate them

Author : Raymond Carver
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101970618
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? written by Raymond Carver and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-05-25 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of stories from “one of the great short story writers of our time” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) breathed new life into the American short story, showing us the humor and tragedy that dwell in the hearts of ordinary people. "[Carver's stories] can ... be counted among the masterpieces of American Literature." —The New York Times Book Review "One of the great short story writers of our time—of any time." —The Philadelhpia Inquirer "The whole collection is a knock out. Few writers can match Raymond Carver's entwining style and language." —The Dallas Morning News

Author : Raymond Carver
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307947939
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beginners written by Raymond Carver and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From “one of the great short story writers of our time—of any time” (The Philadelphia Inquirer)—comes the original manuscript of the seminal 1981 collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. Raymond Carver is one of the most celebrated short-story writers in American literature—his style is both instantly recognizable and hugely influential—and the pieces in What We Talk About…, which portray the gritty loves and lives of the American working class, are counted among the foundation stones of the contemporary short story. In this unedited text, we gain insight into the process of a great writer. These expansive stories illuminate the many dimensions of Carver’s style, and are indispensable to our understanding of his legacy. Text established by William L. Stull and Maureen P. Carroll

Author : Raymond Carver
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101970588
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What We Talk About When We Talk About Love written by Raymond Carver and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-05-25 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most celebrated story collection from “one of the true American masters” (The New York Review of Books)—a haunting meditation on love, loss, and companionship, and finding one’s way through the dark that includes the iconic and much-referenced title story featured in the Academy Award-winning film Birdman. "Raymond Carver's America is ... clouded by pain and the loss of dreams, but it is not as fragile as it looks. It is a place of survivors and a place of stories.... [Carver] has done what many of the most gifted writers fail to do: He has invented a country of his own, like no other except that very world, as Wordsworth said, which is the world to all of us." —The New York Times Book Review

Author : Raymond Carver
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101970545
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Call If You Need Me written by Raymond Carver and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-05-25 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete uncollected fiction and nonfiction, including the five posthumously discovered “last” stories, published here in book form for the first time—from “one of the great short story writers of our time—of any time” (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Call If You Need Me includes all of the prose previously collected in No Heroics, Please, four essays from Fires, and those five marvelous stories that range over the period of Carver’s mature writing and give his devoted readers a final glimpse of the great writer at work. The pure pleasure of Carver’s writing is everywhere in his work, here no less than in those stories that have already entered the canon of modern literature.

Author : Anna Larner
Publisher : Bold Strokes Books
ISBN 13 : 9781635558920
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Highland Whirl written by Anna Larner and published by Bold Strokes Books. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When city girl about town Roxanne Barns reluctantly accepts a holiday invite to her best friend Eve's birthday party in the Scottish Highlands, the last thing she expects is to fall for the very person she's been dreading seeing again-the feisty Highlander, Alice Campbell. The moment Alice learns that Roxanne is visiting her home hamlet of Newland, she couldn't be more suspicious or defensive. A warm welcome is certainly not the plan, let alone falling in love. Despite Eve's warnings that Roxanne is not relationship material, Alice can't ignore her growing attraction. She absolutely trusts Eve's judgment, but taking her advice just might break Alice's heart. Highland Whirl reunites readers with the characters and landscape of Highland Fling in an emotionally enthralling story of trust, friendship, family, and love.

Author : Robert C. Clark
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817318275
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Literary Minimalism written by Robert C. Clark and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Many of the authors Robert Clark discusses have yet to be recognized for their individual contributions to the emergence and continuing vitality of the movement. School of Images is organized based on chronology and lines of influence. In the introduction, Clark offers a definition of the mode and then describes its early stages. He then explores six works that reflect the core characteristics of the mode: Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time, Raymond Carver's Cathedral, Susan Minot's Monkeys, Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City, Sandra Cisneros's Caramelo, and Cormac McCarthy's The Road. In the conclusion, he discusses contemporary authors and filmmakers whose work represents the ongoing evolution of the category"-- Provided by publisher.

Author : Joy Williams
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101874902
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Visiting Privilege written by Joy Williams and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary writer’s definitive story collection, and a literary event of the highest order "Powerful, important, compassionate, and full of dark humor. This is a book that will be reread with admiration and love many times over.” —Vanity Fair Joy Williams has been celebrated as a master of the short story for four decades, her renown passing as a given from one generation to the next even in the shifting landscape of contemporary writing. At long last the incredible scope of her singular achievement is put on display: thirty-three stories drawn from three much-lauded collections, and another thirteen appearing here for the first time in book form. Forty-six stories in all, far and away the most comprehensive volume in her long career, showcasing her crisp, elegant prose, her dark wit, and her uncanny ability to illuminate our world through characters and situations that feel at once peculiar and foreign and disturbingly familiar. Virtually all American writers have their favorite Joy Williams stories, as do many readers of all ages, and each one of them is available here.

Author : Raymond Chandler
Publisher : Everyman's Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1362 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collected Stories of Raymond Chandler written by Raymond Chandler and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2002-10-15 with total page 1362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-five stories, long and short, remind readers again why Chandler's characters are among the most alluring and imitated in 20th-century fiction. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Raymond Carver
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101970561
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Short Cuts written by Raymond Carver and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-05-25 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From “one of the great short story writers of our time” (The Philadelphia Inquirer)—nine stories and a poem that offer a searing portrait of American innocence and loss—and formed the basis for the film “Short Cuts” directed by Robert Altman. With deadpan humor and enormous tenderness, this is the work of “one of the true contemporary masters” (The New York Review of Books). Features stories from the collections Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, Where I’m Calling From, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and A New Path to the Waterfall; including an introduction by Robert Altman.