TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jinqiong Zhou
PY  - 2006
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Raymond Carver’s Short Fiction in the History of Black Humor
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1102162
N2  - 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.
KW  - Schwarzer Humor, Kurzgeschichte, Carver, Raymond, Short Fiction, Black Humor, Chandler, Raymond
LA  - English
ER  -