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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 …
Breaking And Connecting In The Short Stories Of Flannery O'Connor: "The Look Of This Fiction Is Going To Be Wild" (Grace Minus Nature Equals Mystery), John Benjamin Schwartz
Breaking And Connecting In The Short Stories Of Flannery O'Connor: "The Look Of This Fiction Is Going To Be Wild" (Grace Minus Nature Equals Mystery), John Benjamin Schwartz
Honors Papers
Flannery O'Connor was not an author who was afraid to take drastic measures, or to be on familiar terms with a deep mystery. She, like the great mathematicians, had points she wanted to connect,. and was willing to tear her fabric to connect them. In her fiction, the disruption she uses to forge her paths has many incarnations. The generating forces of that disruption, and the forces generated by that disruption, can be focused into three immediately identifiable categories: comedy, violence, and the grotesque. In order to better understand O'Connor's fiction and the connections between the taxed analogy of complex …