%0 Book
%A Jinqiong Zhou
%D 2006
%C New York, United States of America
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%T Raymond Carver’s Short Fiction in the History of Black Humor
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1102162
%X 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.
%K Schwarzer Humor, Kurzgeschichte, Carver, Raymond, Short Fiction, Black Humor, Chandler, Raymond
%G English