Approaches to Teaching the Works of Tim O'Brien by Alex Vernon

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Tim O'Brien by Alex Vernon

“The works of Tim O’Brien are among the most significant recent contributions to a lengthy canon of war literature,” write the editors of this volume; they serve “as an ideal point of entry for discussions of war and its human impact.” The author of the highly acclaimed The Things They Carried, O’Brien is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and the winner of a National Book Award for Going After Cacciato.

This volume in the Approaches to Teaching series considers the range and depth of O’Brien’s writing, with an emphasis on works that focus on the Vietnam War. Part 1, “Materials,” provides information on O’Brien’s life and an overview of his literary output. It also directs readers to critical and reference works on subjects encountered in his writing. The twenty-three essays in part 2, “Approaches,” provide historical background on the Vietnam War; explore narrative issues in O’Brien’s works, such as the melding of fiction, nonfiction, and memoir; and suggest ideas for teaching the author’s works in a variety of classroom and conceptual settings (e.g., composition, American literature, war fiction, narrative theory, postmodernism).

Alex Vernon is assistant professor of English and chair of American Studies at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas. He is author of most succinctly bred (The Kent State University State University Press, 2006) and Soldiers Once and Still: Ernest Hemingway, James Salter, and Tim O'Brien (2004), and coauthor of The Eyes of Orion: Five Tank Lieutenants in the Persian Gulf War (The Kent State University Press, 1999).

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ISBN 13	9781603290760
ISBN 10	1603290761
Title	Approaches to Teaching the Works of Tim O'Brien
Author	Alex Vernon
Series	Approaches To Teaching World Literature 114
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Modern Language Association of America
Year published	2010-01-30
Number of pages	301
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