Research Catalog

Title

Tim O'Brien / editor, Robert C. Evans, Auburn University at Montgomery.

Publication

• Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2015]
• ©2015

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Details

Additional Authors

Evans, Robert C., 1955-

Description

xii, 313 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

This collection of critical essays on American writer Tim O'Brien includes a brief biography and a chronology of the author's life.

Series Statement

Critical insights

Uniform Title

Critical insights.

Subjects

• American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
• O'Brien, Tim, 1946- > Criticism and interpretation
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Literature and the war

Note

• Edition statement supplied by publisher.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

On Tim O'Brien / Patrick A. Smith -- Biography of Tim O'Brien / Deric G. Sallas -- My heroes can't always be cowboys : the influence of popular culture in The nuclear age / Reita K. Gorman -- Tim O'Brien : a critical overview / Susan Farrell -- Critical pluralism and interpretation(s) of Tim O'Brien's The things they carried / Robert C. Evans -- Tim O'Brien, Ernest Hemingway, and the short story cycle tradition / Stefania Ciocia -- "Medals! Medals! Eveyone's got medals" : chasing the elusive Silver Star in the works of Tim O'Brien / Catherine Calloway -- Taking the moral plunge : surface and depth in Tim O'Brien's novels / Kathleen M. Puhr -- "The man" and the moon : black power, 1968, and Going after Cacciato / Brad E. Lucas -- The ultimate war story : losing it in Going after Cacciato / Michael Zeitlin -- Insanity and the problem of meaning in The nuclear age / Derek C. Maus -- "Just listen" : witnessing trauma in Tim O'Brien's The things they carried / Susan Farrell -- Tim O'Brien's The things they carried : initial reception and detailed analysis / Robert E. Evans -- Tim O'Brien's In the lake of the woods : Walden gone west, wild, and wrong / Owen W. Gilman, Jr. -- 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 / D. Quentin Miller -- "Proof of the loop" : patterns of habitual denial in Tim O'Brien's In the lake of the woods and Don DeLillo's Libra / Tim Engles.

Call Number

JFE 15-1860

ISBN

• 9781619254213
• 1619254212

OCLC

903248373

Title

Tim O'Brien / editor, Robert C. Evans, Auburn University at Montgomery.

Publisher

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2015]

Copyright Date

©2015

Edition

[First edition].

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Critical insights

Critical insights.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Evans, Robert C., 1955- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 15-1860