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Post-modernism and Raymond Carver

Post-modernism is not a simple construction. Try to make sense of it based on the two videos above.

Pause the videos and take notes when something important pops up.

We are going to read most of the stories in Raymond Carver's short story collection, Short Cuts. We'll be analyzing the themes by means of reader response criticism, new criticism and structuralism. Our purpose will be to identify post-modernist traits.

Review of Short Cuts and Carver's life

What is minimalism

Neighbors

They are not your husband

Vitamins

Will you Please be Quiet, Please?

Bibliography:

Amanda Headlee: “The “Iceberg Theory” of Writing”, Sarcastic Muse, June 17, 2015, https://thesarcasticmuse.com/2015/06/17/the-iceberg-theory-of-writing/

Buzzle.com: Literary Minimalism: A Brief Overview of Why Less in More, November 12, 2016, https://www.buzzle.com/articles/literary-minimalism.html