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 […]
Sequences, Anti-Sequences, Cycles, and Composite Novels: The Short Story in Genre Criticism
First paragraph: Several recent books and collections of criticism focusing on short story cycles or sequences suggest that there may be a renewed interest in this hybrid genre—in some sense oxymoronic, since the brevity and concentration of the short story are contravened by their assembly in a larger fictional entity. Although stories have historically been […]