American Literature / Unit 18 AML 1729 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Raymond Carver and Minimalism
Captions available
The idea
Carver was born in an Oregon logging town to a sawmill worker, and the anchor calls him a chronicler of working-class lives in realistic, often minimalistic writing. One newspaper called him the most influential writer of American short stories in the second half of the century.
In practice
Working lives, written in the fewest words.
Where people slip
He wanted poet on his headstone.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Unlocks
Something wrong in this lesson? Flag it