Same author, same stories, different unity: a close comparative reading of a selection of stories from Raymond Carver’s What we talk about when we talk about love and beginners

dc.contributor.advisor	Copland, Sarah
dc.contributor.author	Carter, Kaitlyn
dc.date.accessioned	2024-02-26T19:04:18Z
dc.date.available	2024-02-26T19:04:18Z
dc.date.issued	2023
dc.description	Presented February 2-3, 2024 at the English Student Conference 2024 held at MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta.
dc.description.abstract	This essay provides a close comparative reading of three stories from Raymond Carver’s short story cycles Beginners and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. A working definition of short story cycles is developed and referenced in the evaluations of these stories—this definition utilizes literary scholar Gerald Lynch’s work on the sub-genre. The close comparative analyses of “Why Don’t You Dance?”, “One More Thing”, and “Gazebo” reveal that both collections meet the criteria of short story cycles, however Beginners has a stronger unity that achieved through its shared themes. This supports the argument that Carver’s editor, Gordon Lish, exchanged Carver’s unity of theme in Beginners for a weaker unity of style in What We Talk About.
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14078/3433
dc.language.iso	en
dc.rights	All Rights Reserved
dc.subject	short story cycles
dc.subject	Raymond Carver
dc.title	Same author, same stories, different unity: a close comparative reading of a selection of stories from Raymond Carver’s What we talk about when we talk about love and beginners	en
dc.type	Student Report

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