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03211aam a22003858i 4500 001 A68A2202E9E711E69A6025A3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170203020341 008 160428t20172016iau b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2016007768 020 $a 1609384679 020 $a 9781609384678 035 $a (OCoLC)946463093 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3565.B75 $b Z96 2017 082 00 $a 813/.54 $2 23 084 $a LIT004020 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Young, John K. $q (John Kevin), $d 1968- $e author. 245 10 $a How to revise a true war story : $b Tim O'Brien's process of textual production / $c John K. Young. 263 $a 1701 264 1 $a Iowa City : $b University of Iowa Press, $c [2017] 300 $a pages cm. 490 0 $a New American canon 520 $a ""You can tell a true war story if you just keep on telling it," Tim O'Brien writes in The Things They Carried. Widely regarded as the most important novelist to come out of the American war in Viet Nam, O'Brien has kept on telling true war stories not only in narratives that cycle through multiple fictional and non-fictional versions of the war's defining experiences, but also by rewriting those stories again and again. Key moments of revision extend from early drafts, to the initial appearance of selected chapters in magazines, across typescripts and page proofs for first editions, and through continuing post-publication variants in reprints. How to Revise a True War Story is the first book-length study of O'Brien's archival papers at the University of Texas's Harry Ransom Center. Drawing on extensive study of drafts and other prepublication materials, as well as the multiple published versions of O'Brien's works, John K. Young tells the untold stories behind the production of such key texts as Going After Cacciato, The Things They Carried, and In the Lake of the Woods. By reading not just the texts that have been published, but also the versions they could have been, Young demonstrates the important choices O'Brien and his editors have made about how to represent the traumas of the war in Viet Nam. The result is a series of texts that refuse to settle into a finished or stable form, just as the stories they present insist on being told and retold in new and changing ways. In their lack of textual stability, these variants across different versions enact for O'Brien's readers the kinds of narrative volatility that is key to the American literature emerging from the war in Viet Nam. Perhaps in this case, you can tell a true war story if you just keep on revising it"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 600 10 $a O'Brien, Tim, $d 1946- $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 17 $a O'Brien, Tim, $d 1946- $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00151053 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM $x General. $x General. $2 bisacsh 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20171230032748.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20171003031757.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A68A2202E9E711E69A6025A3DAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search