New Paths to Raymond Carver

by Kleppe, Sandra Lee; Miltner, Robert

• ISBN13: 9781570037245
• ISBN10: 1570037248
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-30
• Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Pr

Summary

A balanced assessment of the acclaimed writer's poetry and fiction

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Preface	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
False Sky: Introduction to the Japanese Edition of Ultramarine	p. 1
Sleeping and Waking: Raymond Carver's Late Poetry of Loss	p. 8
"It's like, but not like, a dream": On Reading Ultramarine	p. 20
The Vocabulary of Affection: Attitudes toward Objects, Characters, and Other Writers in the Poetry of Raymond Carver	p. 35
In a Mature Light: The "Second Life" Poems in Where Water Comes Together with Other Water and Ultramarine	p. 46
Raymond Carver's Poet-Voyeur as Involved Spectator	p. 62
American Voyeurism: Why Does Raymond Carver Want Us to Watch?	p. 75
Seeing Ourselves from the Outside: Voyeuristic Empathy in Raymond Carver's Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?	p. 92
The Voluminous Impact of Television in the Fiction of Raymond Carver	p. 104
McCarthy's Mailmen: The Cold War, Raymond Carver, and "What Do You Do in San Francisco?"	p. 115
Raymond Carver and Alcoholics Anonymous: A Narrative under the "Surface of Things"	p. 132
Laughter's Creature: The Humor of Raymond Carver	p. 154
The Poetics of the Banal in Elephant and Other Stories	p. 173
Bulletproof	p. 187
Contributors	p. 197
Index	p. 201
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