Critical Insights: Tim O'Brien

Publisher Salem Press

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Salem Press

Volume

Copyright

2015

ISBN13

9781619254220

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eBook

Grade Level

9th Grade - College Senior

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Overview

This collection brings together a selection of recent representative critical essays on O'Brien from a variety of perspectives. After opening with several short introductory essays, the volume moves on to consider O'Brien's semi-autobiographical coverage of his experience in Vietnam and discusses O'Brien's most famous work, The Things They Carried, in addition to several of his other works.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Dedication.
About This Volume.
Career, Life, and Influence.
1: On Tim O'Brien.
2: Biography of Tim O'Brien.
Critical Contexts.
3: My Heroes Can't Always Be Cowboys: The Influence of Popular Culture in The Nuclear Age.
4: Tim O'Brien: A Critical Overview.
5: Critical Pluralism and Interpretation(s) of Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried.
6: Tim O'Brien, Ernest Hemingway, and the Short Story Cycle Tradition.
Critical Readings.
7: “Medals! Medals! Everyone's Got Medals”: Chasing the Elusive Silver Star in the Works of Tim O'Brien.
8: Taking the Moral Plunge: Surface and Depth in Tim O'Brien's Novels.
9: “The Man” and the Moon: Black Power, 1968, and Going After Cacciato.
10: The Ultimate War Story: Losing it in Going After Cacciato.
11: Insanity and the Problem of Meaning in The Nuclear Age.
12: “Just Listen”: Witnessing Trauma in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried.
13: Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried: Initial Reception and Detailed Analysis.
14: Tim O'Brien's In the Lake of the Woods: Walden Gone West, Wild, and Wrong.
15: Post Cards and Mirrors: Fragmenting the Retrospective Vietnam Narrative: Bobbie Ann Mason's In Country and Tim O'Brien's In the Lake of the Woods.
16: “Proof of the Loop”: Patterns of Habitual Denial in Tim O'Brien's In the Lake of the Woods and Don DeLillo's Libra.
Resources.
Chronology of Tim O'Brien's Life.
Works by Tim O'Brien.
The Works of Tim O'Brien: A Select Annotated Bibliography.
Bibliography.
About the Editor.
Contributors.
Index.
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Critical Insights: Tim O'Brien

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