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"Nobody Said Anything" Issues Of Communication In The Short Stories Of Raymond Carver, Darren Bosch
"Nobody Said Anything" Issues Of Communication In The Short Stories Of Raymond Carver, Darren Bosch
Honors Papers
In this paper I plan to divide my consideration of the different levels of communication in Carver's work into several categories, realizing that these categories overlap and are in no way mutually exclusive. First, I will consider Carver's characters, what might be called communication within the story, or communication as theme. Second, I will specifically look at the narrator, who is both character (and therefore a part of the issues of communication within the story) and communication link between the text and the reader. Finally I will address how narrative point of view and other aspects of Carver's style, such …
The Mythmaking Self (Or The Myth Making Self): Fiction And Experience In Galway Kinnell's The Book Of Nightmares, Michael Patrick Robertson
The Mythmaking Self (Or The Myth Making Self): Fiction And Experience In Galway Kinnell's The Book Of Nightmares, Michael Patrick Robertson
Honors Papers
The Book of Nightmares is a myth of questioning and renewal, with the self as its subject and the world as its text. The problem, however, is that these two are fundamentally at odds. Kinnell's ideals are fixed on the assertion of the self, as artistic authority and mythic wholeness, but the reality of the present produces a range of conflicts and ambiguities which problematize this striving. The poet fixes himself at the center of a process of mythopoesis, using the notion of myth to give form and meaning to experience. Thus it becomes a demiurgic endeavor -- he is …