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1) www.nytimes.com/books/01/01/21/specials/carver.html
This web link contains reviews of many of Raymond Carver's earlier works such as
"Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?", "What We Talk About When We
Talk About Love", and "Cathedral." The reviews are given by
different people in the literary business and range in date from 1981 to 1998.
Also to be found on this site are articles about and by Raymond Carver and links
to other reviews.
The first question that came to my mind while scanning through this site was Why
does the second review, the one of "What We Talk About When We Talk About
Love", seem so scathing? And secondly…Does the reviewer love or hate
Carver?
2) http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/carver1277-des-.html
This web link contains a very detailed summary and review of the short story
"Where I'm Calling From" by New York University Professor Felice Aull,
Ph.D. It also contains links to many key words that relate to Carver's stories,
such as Abandonment, Alcoholism, Cancer, and Communication. Clicking on one such
link will lead you to a catalogue of movies, art, and literature that relate to
the key word. This is a very handy research site.
My first question regarding this site is Why is this summary and review being
presented on a medical site? My second question was Why is Raymond Carver and
his minimalist style so important that Ph.D.s are writing papers on him on
medical sites?
Debra Gonser
Summary 1:
In the Sunday edition of the Seattle Times, Richard Wakefield depicts the
stories Raymond Carver wrote when he was a student. In the midst of some of the writings
were the impressive essays," My Father's Life" and "On Writing".
People who are committed to his works will collect his first stories, essays, and reviews.
The uncollected story, "Call If You Need Me" exposes the late Raymond Carver.
Wakefield tells how "What Would You Like to See?" and "Kindling"
exemplifies how, 'Carvers characters tend to be inarticulate - - no cathartic speeches'
(1). These stories will be models to people who want to be writers, but only committed
readers will collect them.
Source
Wakefield, Richard. "The last of Raymond Carver." Seattle Times 28 Jan. 2001,
Sunday ed. F8.
Summary 2:
Steve King from The Spectator describes Raymond Carver's five new stories as 'on the
brink of melodrama' (64). Since Carvers first book in 1976 to his death in 1988, he has
been recognized as a famous short story writer. Carver writes about ordinary people in
every day lives, 'They drink. They argue. They have affairs' (64). Carvers writing style
is well liked and typical Carver. After describing fine points of the short stories, King
informs how Carver's ending are blameless yet strongly evocative. He knew when to repress
and let the absence and silence do his work.]
Source
King, Steve. "Master of absence and silence." The Spectator 30 Sep. 2000, 64.
Jerad Mendenhall
I. Mullen, Bill. Television culture in the short stories of Raymond Carver. Critique;
Washington Winter 1998. Volume 39, issue 2. pages 99-114 This source is different than any
of the others I have found. It looks at Raymond Carver's short stories and criticizes them
in two different categories, the first addresses him as a minimalist, and the second
emphasizes the social and economic milieu of Carver's stories. Questions I had: 1. I
wondered how I will fit some of this info into my essay, because a lot of this essay is
just retelling the stories from the book. 2. Why he thinks that Carver's stories should be
looked at for the economic milieu, and not his minimalist approach.
II. Robinson, Marilynne. Marriage and other astonishing bonds. May 15,1988
http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/01/21/specials/carver-calling.html This is an excellent
source that gives a book critics review of Where I'm Calling From. She summarizes
many of the stories and gives her thoughts on what she liked and disliked about the
stories. Another thing that was neat about this review is that she gives a short biography
on Carver's life at the end, which helps the reader to understand her review. Questions I
had: 1. In his biography she didn't mention the alcoholism in his life, why? 2. In her
review she says that she wants to abduct Raymond Carver from the camp of minimalists, why
Boonlert Poosri
Raymond Carver was a short story writer and a poet; he was born in Clatskanie, Oregon,
on May 25, 1938. At the age of nineteen, he was married and had two children. Carver's
writing career began when he was at Chico State College; he took Creative Writing 101with
John Gardner. While there he would go through Gardner manuscripts, and steal titles from
Gardner's stories, and used them in his own stories. Gardner then lectures Carver on basic
of plagiarize. Most of Carver's stories deal with people's daily lives, "It's
strange. You never start out life with the intention of becoming a bankrupt or an
alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a liar" (Raymond Carver). At one point or other
Carver experience all of these. Between 1976 and 1977, he was hospitalized four times for
an acute alcoholism. In June 2, 1977, Carver quit drinking, and he stops writing for a
while. When he starts writing again, his style of writing change just like his life style.
He then rewrites lots of his old stories; he also received lots of awards during this
time. At the age of 50, Carver died from lung cancer.
Source
Carson, Phillip. "Carver's Vision." http://world.std.com/~ptc/Carver-paper.html 23 Feb. 2001
Stull, William L. "Biographical Essay." http://people.whitman.edu/~lucetb/carver/biography1.html 23 Feb. 2001
Links to Sites:
Carver, Raymond. http://world.std.com/~ptc/. 28, Feb. 2001
Carver, Raymond 1938-1988. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/9020/carver.html. 28,
Feb. 2001
New York times,Raymond Carver. http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/01/21/specials/carver.html?0119bk. 2, Mar. 2001
Luce, Tom. Brent, Bryan. The Carver Website http://people.whitman.edu/~lucetb/carver/.
2, Mar. 2001
Stull, L. William. Two interviews with Raymond Carver. http://titan.iwu.edu/~jplath/carver.html. 2, Mar. 2001
In Full Raymond Clevie Carver http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rcarver.htm. 2, Mar. 2001
Wired for Books: Community Reconsidered. http://www.tcom.ohiou.edu/books/carver.htm. 2,
Mar. 2001
Raymond Carver: a Biography. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/9020/bio.html 23
Feb. 2001
Phillip Carson. http://world.std.com/~ptc/Carver-paper.html 23 Feb. 2001
Raymond Carver, "Where I'm Calling From." http://www.nmhu.edu/departmaents/english/grad/farkas2.htm 23 Feb. 2001
Raymond Carver: Photos. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/9020/photos.html 23 Feb.
2001
Raymond Carver: Biography. http://people.whitman.edu/~lucetb/carver/biography1.html 23
Feb. 2001
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