Tim O'Brien's The things they carried
By: edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom
Series: Bloom's modern critical interpretations
Publisher: Bloom's Literary Criticism
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781604138733
Subjects: Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Literature and the war
Other titles: Things they carried
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Things they carried as composite novel / Farrell O'Gorman; title: Perspectives of other characters / Mats Tegmark; title: "Excremental assault" in Tim O'Brien: trauma and recovery in Vietnam War literature / David R. Jarraway; title: Undying uncertainty / Jim Neilson; title: 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; title: "Afraid to admit we are not Achilles": facing Hector's dilemma in Tim O'Brien's The things they carried / Christopher Michael McDonough; title: Role of the ideal (female) reader in Tim O'Brien's The things they carried: why should real women play? / Pamela Smiley; title: Tim O'Brien and gender: a defense of the things they carried / Susan Farrell; title: Salvation, storytelling, and pilgrimage in Tim O'Brien's The things they carried / Alex Vernon.