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Raymond Carver
  • Format
  • HARDCOVER
  • Authored by: Harold Bloom, Editor
  • From the Series: Bloom's Major Short Story Writers
  • Trim Size: 6 x 9
  • ISBN-10: 0791068218
  • ISBN-13: 978-0-7910-6821-2
  • Status: In Stock
  • List Price: $31.95
  • Imprint: Chelsea House
  • Published: 08/01/2002
  • Dewey Number: 813
  • Reading Level: Grades 9 and up
  • Pages: 88

Summary

Raymond Carver is viewed as a genius within the limits he imposed upon himself. His early work was heavily influenced by Ernest Hemingway. The work of this modern day author who died at a young age is studied in this volume by some of the most respected critics on the subject. Examined works include "Where I'm Calling From," "Cathedral," "Fever," "The Bridle," and "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love."

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About the Author(s)

Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University. He is the author of 30 books, including Shelley's Mythmaking (1959), The Visionary Company (1961), Blake's Apocalypse (1963), Yeats (1970), A Map of Misreading (1975), Kabbalah and Criticism (1975), Agon: Toward a Theory of Revisionism (1982), The American Religion (1992), The Western Canon (1994), Omens of Millennium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection (1996), and Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (1998), a 1998 National Book Award finalist. The Anxiety of Influence (1973) sets forth Professor Bloom's provocative theory of the literary relationships between the great writers and their predecessors. His most recent books include How to Read and Why (2000), Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds (2002), Hamlet: Poem Unlimited (2003), Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? (2004), and Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine (2005). In 1999, Professor Bloom received the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Criticism. He has also received the International Prize of Catalonia, the Alfonso Reyes Prize of Mexico, and the Hans Christian Andersen Bicentennial Prize of Denmark.

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