Technique and Sensibility in the Fiction and Poetry of Raymond Carver

Arthur F. Bethea received his PhD. from Ohio University in 1996 and is currently an Assistant Professor of English at Purdue University-Calumet.

• Introduction Chapter One: Reassessing Indeterminacy's Importance: An Examination of the Unreliable Narrators in Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? Chapter Two: What's in Alaska?: Symbolic Significance in the Commonplace Chapter Three: The Education of Ralph Wyman: The Epistemological Theme in Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? Chapter Four: Catatonic Realism? Further Analysis of Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? Chapter Five: Omission in What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Chapter Six: Excessive Authorial Control?: More Analysis of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Chapter Seven: Isolation and Withdrawal: The Still Bleak Prospects for Carver's Characters in Cathedral Chapter Eight Communication in the Final Stories Chapter Nine: Raymond Carver's Poetic Technique Chapter Ten A Thematic Guide to Carver's Poetry Metapoetry and Tributes Alcoholism Marriage and Family Nature Death and Beyond Chapter Eleven Conclusion Bibliography