Alex Vernon
Biographic Data
| ID | 1484030 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex Vernon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex |
| FAMILY NAME | Vernon |
| SIGNATURE | VERNON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hendrix College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Kinetoscope of War
A Kinetoscope of War:The Cinematic Effects of Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried Alex Vernon (bio) In a key chapter of The Things They Carried (1990), titled "How to Tell a True War Story," Tim O'Brien's fictional narrator—also named Tim O'Brien—turns to the general address of the second-person pronoun to put the reader into a character's state of mind. You watch the "fluid symmetries," O'Brien writes, the "harmonies of sound and shape and pro…
American POW Memoirs from the Revolutionary War through the Vietnam War
Submission and Resistance to the Self as Soldier
(2002). Submission and Resistance to the Self as Soldier: Tim O'Brien's Vietnam War Memoir. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 161-179
Narrative Miscegenation
Narrative Miscegenation: Absalom, Absaloml as Naturalist Novel, Auto/Biography, and African-American Oral Story Alex Vernon Charles Darwin's evolutionary ideas, especially as disseminated by Herbert Spencer, profoundly affected literary criticism at the end of the nineteenth century, with genres treated like biological species to the degree that at least one critic wrote about "a struggle for existence among genres" (Pizer 82). A century later, i…
The Eyes of Orion
Staging Violence in West's "The Day of the Locust" and Shepard's "True West"
IN A 1993 INTERVIEW, RESPONDING TO A QUESTION ABOUT how his play Angel City (1976) relates to other plays and films depicting Hollywood themes, Sam Shepard declares Nathanael West's 7he Day ofthe Locust brilliant book that says it all about Hollywood (Rosen 9). This essay explores similarities between West's 1939 novel and Shepard's later play, True WEst (1980), not as they depict Hollywood but as they depict violence--specifically how West and S…
Prodding and Prompting
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Prodding and Prompting
The Eyes of Orion
Staging Violence in West's "The Day of the Locust" and Shepard's "True West"
IN A 1993 INTERVIEW, RESPONDING TO A QUESTION ABOUT how his play Angel City (1976) relates to other plays and films depicting Hollywood themes, Sam Shepard declares Nathanael West's 7he Day ofthe Locust brilliant book that says it all about Hollywood (Rosen 9). This essay explores similarities between West's 1939 novel and Shepard's later play, True WEst (1980), not as they depict Hollywood but as they depict violence--specifically how West and S…
Narrative Miscegenation
Narrative Miscegenation: Absalom, Absaloml as Naturalist Novel, Auto/Biography, and African-American Oral Story Alex Vernon Charles Darwin's evolutionary ideas, especially as disseminated by Herbert Spencer, profoundly affected literary criticism at the end of the nineteenth century, with genres treated like biological species to the degree that at least one critic wrote about "a struggle for existence among genres" (Pizer 82). A century later, i…
Submission and Resistance to the Self as Soldier
(2002). Submission and Resistance to the Self as Soldier: Tim O'Brien's Vietnam War Memoir. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 161-179
American POW Memoirs from the Revolutionary War through the Vietnam War
A Kinetoscope of War
A Kinetoscope of War:The Cinematic Effects of Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried Alex Vernon (bio) In a key chapter of The Things They Carried (1990), titled "How to Tell a True War Story," Tim O'Brien's fictional narrator—also named Tim O'Brien—turns to the general address of the second-person pronoun to put the reader into a character's state of mind. You watch the "fluid symmetries," O'Brien writes, the "harmonies of sound and shape and pro…
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