The Things They Carried

The Things They Carried Criticism

• Introduction
• Principal Works
• Essays
  • Vietnam, Carried On
  • Never Done
  • The Undying Certainty of the Narrator in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried
  • ‘The Things Men Do’: The Gendered Subtext in Tim O'Brien's Esquire Stories
  • ‘How to Tell a True War Story’: Metafiction in The Things They Carried
  • ‘Unraveling the Deeper Meaning’: Exile and the Embodied Poetics of Displacement in Tim O'Brien's The Thing They Carried
  • ‘Excremental Assault’ in Tim O'Brien: Trauma and Recover in Vietnam War Literature
  • Conversation across a Century: The War Stories of Ambrose Bierce and Tim O'Brien
  • The Things They Carried as Composite Novel
  • O'Brien's ‘How to Tell a True War Story’
  • Getting It Right: The Short Fiction of Tim O'Brien
  • Telling the ‘Truth’ about Vietnam: Episteme and Narrative Structure in The Green Berets and The Things They Carried
  • 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
  • ‘Afraid to Admit We Are Not Achilles’: Facing Hector's Dilemma in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried
  • Tim O'Brien and the Art of the True War Story: ‘Night March’ and ‘Speaking of Courage’
  • True War Stories
  • Truth and Fiction in Tim O'Brien's If I Die in a Combat Zone and The Things They Carried