Tim O''brien - The Things He Carries and the Stories He Tells

Informationen zum Autor Tobey C. Herzog, a Vietnam Veteran, is an Emeritus Professor of English and the Emeritus Anne and Andrew T. Ford Chair in the Liberal Arts, Wabash College. He has authored three books on American narratives on the Vietnam experience: Vietnam War Stories: Innocence Lost; Tim O’Brien; and Writing Vietnam, Writing Life. Klappentext This collection of seven essays, like the carefully linked collection of vignettes within Tim O'Brien's most popular book The Things They Carried , contains multiple critical and biographical angles with recurring threads of life events, themes, characters, creative techniques, and references to all of O'Brien's books. Grounded in through research, Herzog's work illustrates how O'Brien merges his life experiences with his creative production; he rarely misses an opportunity to introduce these critical life events into his writing. Zusammenfassung This collection of seven essays, like the carefully linked collection of vignettes within Tim O’Brien’s most popular book The Things They Carried , contains multiple critical and biographical angles with recurring threads of life events, themes, characters, creative techniques, and references to all of O’Brien’s books. Grounded in through research, Herzog’s work illustrates how O’Brien merges his life experiences with his creative production; he rarely misses an opportunity to introduce these critical life events into his writing. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: The Things He Carries; 2: The Thing He Carried and the War Stories He Tells; 3: Siegfried Sassoon and Tim O’Brien; 4: Tim O’Brien’s Creative Rotary and “True Lies (?)” 1; 5: Tim O’Brien’s Best Novel (?); 6: Footnotes and Quotes; 7: The Wars of the Living and the Final (?) Fractured Love Stories

Product details

• Authors: Herzog, Tobey C Herzog, Tobey C. Herzog
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781138552012
• ISBN: 978-1-138-55201-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature; Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; USA, Biography: literary, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Historical Events, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Biography: writers