- Monday 3/16
- Tuesday 3/17
- Wednesday 3/18
- Thursday 3/19
- Friday 3/20
- Monday 3/23
- Tuesday 3/24
- Wednesday 3/25
- Monday 3/30
- Tuesday 3/31
- Wednesday 4/1
- Thursday 4/2
- Monday 4/13
- Thursday 4/16
- Tuesday 4/22
- Monday 5/4
VOCAB PROJECT (ongoing, more to come)
RESOURCES (ongoing, more to come)
- Reading Schedule
- The Weight of War in Chapter 1
- How to Tell a True War Story
- Chart
- Discussion Guide
- Nihilism, Postmodernism, Metafiction,
- Oh my - one of the most difficult aspects of O'Brien's secondary argument is the broken nature of communication after the traumas of war coupled with the possibility for storytelling as healing.
- The ambiguity of this argument is only furthered by the tool of argumentation - metafiction. As O'Brien blurs the line between fact and fiction, between truth and exaggeration, between happening-truth and story-truth, he calls attention to the stories as a construct in order to help us recognize other constructs related to war and post-war trauma.
- Here is some background information on nihilism, fragmentation, ambiguity, metafiction
- Modernism - nihilism and fragmentation - between WWI and WWII
- Postmodernism - ambiguity, deconstruction, metafiction - after WWII
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