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1995
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Claire Maniez, « « Why, Honey? » de Raymond Carver : les limites de l’interprétation », Revue Française d'Études Américaines, ID : 10.3406/rfea.1995.1575
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R. Carver's work has recently been the object of numerous studies in the United States as well as in France. Using the example of his short story « Why, Honey ? », this paper examines some of them in the light of Eco's contention — in reaction to what he considered as a « crisis » in interpretative theory, leading to various excesses and overinterpretations — that the legitimacy of one interpretation should be measured against the intentio operis at work in a particular text. It thus proposes an analysis of the narrative strategy used by Carver, which conditions the reader's response and questions the legitimacy of some other available interpretations.