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 Houston’s Waltzing the Cat (Texas Tech University).
Link: https://ttu-ir.tdl.org/handle/2346/17119
The Things They Carried entry at LinkedShortStories.com
Note: This thesis contains no abstract and is downloadable as a scanned PDF.
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