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Title:

Tim O'Brien's The things they carried / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Publisher:

Bloom's Literary Criticism,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

vii, 162 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

O'Brien, Tim,-- 1946---Things they carried.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Literature and the war.

Other Authors:

Bloom, Harold.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Things they carried as composite novel -- Perspectives of other characters -- "Excremental assault" in Tim O'Brien: trauma and recovery in Vietnam War literature -- Undying uncertainty -- 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 -- "Afraid to admit we are not Achilles": facing Hector's dilemma in Tim O'Brien's The things they carried -- Role of the ideal (female) reader in Tim O'Brien's The things they carried: why should real women play? -- Tim O'Brien and gender: a defense of the things they carried -- Salvation, storytelling, and pilgrimage in Tim O'Brien's The things they carried.

Series:

Bloom's modern critical interpretations

ISBN:

1604138734
9781604138733

LCCN:

2010051341

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)