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Abstract
Literary minimalism has been a subject of negative criticism by major American critics since its appearance in the late 1980s, till the present day. It has been censured for being a straightforward, trivial, banal, and an inconsequential kind of writing in which everything is left unstated. As a result of this negative criticism, literary minimalism has been largely misunderstood, undervalued, and even rejected. It has not been given the critical study it deserves. Many questions are asked about its origins, about the influence it has on literature, and whether or not it should be valued. This thesis attempts to answer such questions and to defend literary minimalism against all the accusations. The thesis also aims at shedding the light on the fact that minimalism’s ”less” provides ”more”. The researcher intends to do this by examining closely three techniques in Raymond Carver’s works which contributed to his minimalism: the unreliable narrators in “Why, Honey?” and “What Do You Do In San Francisco?”, omissions in “Why Don’t You Dance?” and “The Bath”, and open-ended conclusions in “Preservation” and “Careful”.