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Tim O'Brien's The things they carried / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Bloom's modern critical interpretations.
- Bloom's modern critical interpretations
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Literature and the war.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- O'Brien, Tim, 1946- Things they carried.
- O'Brien, Tim.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (162 pages)
- Other Title:
- Things they carried
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection of stories from Tim O'Brien paints an often-brutal portrait of soldiers' lives during the Vietnam War. More than two decades after its initial publication, this new classic of American fiction is being featured for the first time in the long-running Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations series. Complete with an introduction from the venerable Harold Bloom, and featuring a chronology of O'Brien's life, a bibliography of his works, and an index for reference, this volume of critical essays is a valuable source for students of literature studying The Things They Carried.
- Contents:
- Things they carried as composite novel / Farrell O'Gorman
- Perspectives of other characters / Mats Tegmark
- "Excremental assault" in Tim O'Brien: trauma and recovery in Vietnam War literature / David R. Jarraway
- Undying uncertainty / Jim Neilson
- Challenging the law of courage and heroic identification in Tim O'Brien's If I die in a combat zone and the things they carried / Carl S. Horner
- "Afraid to admit we are not Achilles": facing Hector's dilemma in Tim O'Brien's The things they carried / Christopher Michael McDonough
- Role of the ideal (female) reader in Tim O'Brien's The things they carried: why should real women play? / Pamela Smiley
- Tim O'Brien and gender: a defense of the things they carried / Susan Farrell
- Salvation, storytelling, and pilgrimage in Tim O'Brien's The things they carried / Alex Vernon.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4381-3714-1
- OCLC:
- 739049096
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