On Waiting in Raymond Carver’s “A Small, Good Thing”
The essay examines three temporalities traversed by Scotty’s parents as their child lies in a coma drifting towards his death. In the first temporal dimension, time is sought to be harnessed to human desire; here the parents’ waiting is purposeful, framed by prediction and expectation whose symboli...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Journal of the Short Story in English
2008
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| Accès en ligne: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |