A comparative analysis of Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried and Pam Houston’s Waltzing the Cat. From: Vermillion, M. K. (2003). Reader participation in the composite novel: Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried and Pam...
From the first paragraph: In 2001, James Nagel observed that “never has the genre of the short-story cycle been used with greater force or variety than in the American fiction of the 1980s and 1990s,...
A great article about The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien. In lieu of an abstract, here’s the first paragraph: When Tim O’Brien’s If I Die in a Combat Zone appeared in 1973, critics lauded...