The Irony in Carver

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This paper talks about how the discussion of Carver's literary fiction almost always resorts to a discussion of his minimalism and how his fiction personifies that device (Trussler par.2). Yet, this fixation on his minimalist approach often results in his mastery of other literary device, such as irony, being overlooked or at least only minimally addressed, to make a pun of the oversight itself. The paper discusses how as researchers are quick to point out, there are many types of irony and the employment of this literary device has taken many forms (Reiss). However, Carver, in line with his minimalist attributes employs irony in singular ways that are characterized not by their variety but rather by their consistency. Instead of ironic variety Carver limits the majority of his employment of irony to the realm of verbal, situational and dramatic in a constant interplay of the simplistic.

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