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Postmodernism and the Acoustic Environment of the Vietnam War in Tim O`Brien`s “The Things They Carried”

Author : Urs Endhardt
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656605645
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book Postmodernism and the Acoustic Environment of the Vietnam War in Tim O`Brien`s “The Things They Carried” written by Urs Endhardt and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Basel, language: English, abstract: During the course of this seminar paper, I will show how O'Brien describes the Vietnam War and its accompanying acoustic environment as a loud and chaotic cacophony, where no clear boundaries and no easily identifiable enemy exist. Thereby, and by the way in which O'Brien employs characteristics typical for postmodern fiction, the novel can be seen as an exemplary postmodern representation of the Vietnam War. For the understanding and distinction of the terms postmodernism and postmodernity I will include a discussion of their characteristics.

The Things They Carried

Author : Tim O'Brien
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547420293
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book The Things They Carried written by Tim O'Brien and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Look for O’Brien’s new book, American Fantastica, on sale October 24th A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. Taught everywhere—from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing—it has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing. The Things They Carried won France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

In the Shoes of a Soldier

Author : Mats Tegmark
Publisher : S. Academiae Ubsaliensis
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Shoes of a Soldier written by Mats Tegmark and published by S. Academiae Ubsaliensis. This book was released on 1998 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Waging War on War

Author : Giorgio Mariani
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252039751
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book Waging War on War written by Giorgio Mariani and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2015-12-07 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion that war plays a fundamental role in the United States' idea of itself obscures the rich--and by no means naïve--seam of anti-war thinking that winds through American culture. Non-violent resistance, far from being a philosophy of passive dreamers, instead embodies Ralph Waldo Emerson's belief that peace "can never be defended, never be executed, by cowards." Giorgio Mariani rigorously engages with the essential question of what makes a text explicitly anti-war. Ranging from Emerson and Joel Barlow to Maxine Hong Kingston and Tim O'Brien, Waging War on War explores why sustained attempts at identifying the anti-war text's formal and philosophical features seem to always end at an impasse. Mariani moves a step beyond to construct a theoretical model that invites new inquiries into America's nonviolent, nonconformist tradition even as it challenges the ways we study U.S. warmaking and the cultural reactions to it. In the process, he shows how the ideal of nonviolence and a dislike of war have been significant, if nonhegemonic, features of American culture since the nation's early days. Ambitious and nuanced, Waging War on War at last defines anti-war literature while exploring the genre's role in an assertive peacefighting project that offered--and still offers--alternatives to violence.

The Vietnam War and Postmodernity

Author : Michael Bibby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Vietnam War and Postmodernity written by Michael Bibby and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederic Jameson once characterized the Vietnam War as "the first terrible postmodernist war, " suggesting that it embodied or reflected the sensibility of an emerging historical epoch. But does it make sense to place a military conflict within a category of cultural and aesthetic periodization? Is it possible to see the Vietnam War as an expression and reflection of postmodernity -- what Jameson calls "the cultural logic of late capitalism"?

The Things They Carried

Author : Tim O'Brien
Publisher : Large Print Press
ISBN 13 : 9781432848101
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book The Things They Carried written by Tim O'Brien and published by Large Print Press. This book was released on 2017-10-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its first publication in 1979, "The Things They Carried" has become an unparalleled testament to the men who served in Vietnam--a classic work that illuminates the capacity, and the limits, of the human heart and soul.

Doing Literary Criticism

Author : Tim Gillespie
Publisher : Stenhouse Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1571108424
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Doing Literary Criticism written by Tim Gillespie and published by Stenhouse Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the greatest challenges for English language arts teachers today is the call to engage students in more complex texts. Tim Gillespie, who has taught in public schools for almost four decades, has found the lenses of literary criticism a powerful tool for helping students tackle challenging literary texts. Tim breaks down the dense language of critical theory into clear, lively, and thorough explanations of many schools of critical thought---reader response, biographical, historical, psychological, archetypal, genre based, moral, philosophical, feminist, political, formalist, and postmodern. Doing Literary Criticism gives each theory its own chapter with a brief, teacher-friendly overview and a history of the approach, along with an in-depth discussion of its benefits and limitations. Each chapter also includes ideas for classroom practices and activities. Using stories from his own English classes--from alternative programs to advance placement and everything in between--Tim provides a wealth of specific classroom-tested suggestions for discussion, essay and research paper topics, recommended texts, exam questions, and more. The accompanying CD offers abbreviated overviews of each theory (designed to be used as classroom handouts, examples of student work, collections of quotes to stimulate discussion and writing, an extended history of women writers, and much more. Ultimately, Doing Literary Criticism offers teachers a rich set of materials and tools to help their students become more confident and able readers, writers, and critical thinkers.

Women and the War Story

Author : Miriam Cooke
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520918096
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Women and the War Story written by Miriam Cooke and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a book that radically and fundamentally revises the way we think about war, Miriam Cooke charts the emerging tradition of women's contributions to what she calls the "War Story," a genre formerly reserved for men. Concentrating on the contemporary literature of the Arab world, Cooke looks at how alternatives to the master narrative challenge the authority of experience and the permission to write. She shows how women who write themselves and their experiences into the War Story undo the masculine contract with violence, sexuality, and glory. There is no single War Story, Cooke concludes; the standard narrative—and with it the way we think about and conduct war—can be changed. As the traditional time, space, organization, and representation of war have shifted, so have ways of describing it. As drug wars, civil wars, gang wars, and ideological wars have moved into neighborhoods and homes, the line between combat zones and safe zones has blurred. Cooke shows how women's stories contest the acceptance of a dyadically structured world and break down the easy oppositions—home vs. front, civilian vs. combatant, war vs. peace, victory vs. defeat—that have framed, and ultimately promoted, war.

The Things They Carried

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438114842
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book The Things They Carried written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of stories from Vietnam War writer Tim O'Briens paints a through picture of the soldiers' life in the Vietnam War.

Light a Penny Candle

Author : Maeve Binchy
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101209291
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Light a Penny Candle written by Maeve Binchy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beloved author Maeve Binchy's first published novel, an engrossing coming of age tale about the incredible bond of friendship. To escape the chaos of London during World War II, young Elizabeth White is sent to live a safer life in the small Irish town of Kilgarret. It is there, in the crowded, chaotic O’Connor household, that she meet Aisling—a girl who soon becomes her very best friend, sharing her pet kitten and secretly teaching her the intricacies of Catholicism. Aisling’s boldness brings Elizabeth out of her proper shell; later, her support carries Elizabeth through the painful end of her parents’ chilly marriage. In return, Elizabeth’s friendship helps Aisling endure her own unsatisfying marriage to a raging alcoholic. Through the years, they come to believe they can overcome any conflict, conquer any hardship—as long as they have each other. Now they’re about to find out if they're right... “A sumptuous saga.”—Harper’s “Wonderful…a novel that could be mistaken for life.”—New York Daily News

The Things They Carried

Author : Tim O'Brien
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780547391175
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Things They Carried written by Tim O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Vietnam War Stories

Author : Tobey C. Herzog
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113490262X
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Vietnam War Stories written by Tobey C. Herzog and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gulf War and its aftermath have testified once again to the significance placed on the meanings and images of Vietnam by US media and culture. Almost two decades after the end of hostilities, the Vietnam War remains a dominant moral, political and military touchstone in American cultural consciousness. Vietnam War Stories provides a comprehensive critical framework for understanding the Vietnam experience, Vietnam narratives and modern war literature. The narratives examined - personal accounts as well as novels - portray a soldier's and a country's journey from pre-war innocence, through battlefield experience and consideration, to a difficult post-war adjustment. Tobey Herzog places these narratives within the context of important cultural and literary themes, including inherent ironies of war, the "John Wayne syndrome" of pre-war innocence, and the "heavy Heart-of-Darkness trip" of the conflict itself.

Anarchism and the Crisis of Representation

Author : Jesse S. Cohn
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781575911052
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Anarchism and the Crisis of Representation written by Jesse S. Cohn and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anarchism and the Crisis of Representation is intended to provide readers of literary criticism, art history, political philosophy, and the social sciences with a fresh perspective from which to revisit dead-end theoretical debates over concepts such as "agency," "essentialism," and "realism" - and, at the same time, to offer a new take on anarchism itself, challenging conventional readings of the tradition. The anarchism that emerges from this reinterpretation is neither a musty rationalism nor a millenarian irrationalism, but a living body of thought that points beyond the sterile antinomies of post-modern and Marxist theory."--BOOK JACKET.

Rolling Thunder in a Gentle Land

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781472895905
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (959 download)

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Download or read book Rolling Thunder in a Gentle Land written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fifteen renowned authors from widely varied backgrounds examine the Vietnam War, providing a fresh insight into this controversial conflict, even for those who have 'read it all before'. First-hand accounts, maps and contemporary photographs, analysis from the soldiers involved and new perspectives from combatants on both sides provide an incisive investigation into a fascinating and terrible war."This is a superb and compelling reexamination of the major historical, political, and ethical issues that continue to smoulder many decades after the conclusion of the Vietnam War, I highly recommend Rolling Thunder in a Gentle Land. It is among the best books of its kind that I've encountered over the last dozen years. Tom O'Brien, author of The Things They Carried."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

The Last Convertible

Author : Anton Myrer
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061746517
Total Pages : 913 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book The Last Convertible written by Anton Myrer and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 913 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book description to come.

Mythologizing the Vietnam War

Author : Jennifer Good
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443869481
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Mythologizing the Vietnam War written by Jennifer Good and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vietnam War is evolving from contemporary memory into history. Fifty years on, it still serves as a benchmark in the history of war reporting and in the representation of conflict in popular culture and historical memory. However, as contemporary culture tries to come to terms with the events and their political, psychological and cultural implications, the ‘real’ Vietnam War has been appropriated and changed into a set of mythologies which implicate American and Vietnamese national identities specifically, and ideas of modern conflict more broadly, particularly in shaping the mediation of the twenty-first century ‘War on Terror’. This collection of interdisciplinary critical essays explores the cultural legacies of the US involvement in South East Asia, considering this process of ‘mythologising’ through the lenses of visual media and tracing the war’s evolution from contemporary reportage to subsequent interpretation and consumption. It reassesses the role of visual media in covering and remembering the war, its memorialisation, mediation and memory. The origin of this collection of essays was an international conference, titled “Considering Vietnam”, held at the Imperial War Museum, London, in February 2012, co-organised by the museum and the University of the Arts London Photography and the Archive Research Centre (PARC).

Domestications

Author : Hosam Mohamed Aboul-Ela
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810137518
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Domestications written by Hosam Mohamed Aboul-Ela and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Domestications traces a genealogy of American global engagement with the Global South since World War II. Hosam Aboul-Ela reads American writers contrapuntally against intellectuals from the Global South in their common—yet ideologically divergent—concerns with hegemony, world domination, and uneven development. Using Edward Said’s Culture and Imperialism as a model, Aboul-Ela explores the nature of U.S. imperialism’s relationship to literary culture through an exploration of five key terms from the postcolonial bibliography: novel, idea, perspective, gender, and space. Within this framework the book examines juxtapositions including that of Paul Bowles’s Morocco with North African intellectuals’ critique of Orientalism, the global treatment of Vietnamese liberation movements with the American narrative of personal trauma in the novels of Tim O’Brien and Hollywood film, and the war on terror’s philosophical idealism with Korean and post-Arab nationalist materialist archival fiction. Domestications departs from other recent studies of world literature in its emphases not only on U.S. imperialism but also on intellectuals working in the Global South and writing in languages other than English and French. Although rooted in comparative literature, its readings address issues of key concern to scholars in American studies, postcolonial studies, literary theory, and Middle Eastern studies.