Martha obryan autobiography

The Things They Carried

1990 short story collection by Tim O'Brien

First edition cover

AuthorTim O'Brien
LanguageEnglish
GenreHistorical Fiction
PublishedMarch 28, 1990
PublisherHoughton Mifflin
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardcover, paperback)
Pages233
ISBN0767902890
Preceded byThe Nuclear Age (1985) 
Followed byIn the Lake of the Woods (1994) 

The Things They Carried (1990) is a collection of linked short stories by American novelist Tim O'Brien, about a platoon of American soldiers fighting on the ground in the Vietnam War. His third book about the war, it is based upon his experiences as a soldier in the 23rd Infantry Division.

O'Brien generally refrains from political debate and discourse regarding the Vietnam War. He was dismayed that people in his home town seemed to have so little understanding of the war and its world. It was in part a response to what he considered ignorance that he wrote The Things They Carried.[1] It was published by Ho

Mary Anne O'Bryan

Mary Anne O'Bryan was born in 1744, in Ireland as the daughter of James O'Brien and Elizabeth Clo. She married Rev. John “Ten schilling bell” Chastain on 25 October 1763, in Buckingham, Virginia, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 12 March 1797, in Anderson, Pendleton, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Chastain Cemetery, Pumpkintown, Pickens, South Carolina, United States.

Dr Tomos Owen

Supervisions

I welcome informal enquiries and applications for PhD supervision in areas which overlap with my own interests and expertise:

  • modern and contemporary literature and culture
  • the literatures of Britain and Ireland
  • the literatures of Wales (in both languages)
  • the writing of the apocalypse
  • eco-critical approaches to literature
  • literature and the city
  • mobility, itinerancy and modernity
  • new writing

I am currently supervising the following PhD students:

  • Martha O'Brien, ''Wee wenhonourGhosetrayn': The spectres of Modern Welsh Writing in English' (AHRC SWW DTP; co-supervisor with Dr Kirsty Sedgman, University of Bristol, 2020 - )
  • Zainab Alqublan, 'Poetic Presentation Of Oriental Kingship In The Nineteenth Century' (co-supervisor with Professor Bill Bell, 2018 - ).

I have previously acted as supervisor or co-supervisor four PhD projects, including, to completion, Daniel Hughes, 'Breaking up the Traditional Skyline: Writing Modernist Wales in English' (Bangor University, 2013-17).

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