Date Thesis Awarded

5-2016

Access Type

Honors Thesis -- Access Restricted On-Campus Only

Degree Name

Bachelors of Arts (BA)

Department

English

Advisor

Elizabeth Barnes

Committee Members

Colleen Kennedy

Melanie Dawson

Jennifer Taylor

Abstract

Telling the Stories that Can't Be Told: Translating War in Hemingway, Vonnegut, and O'Brien poses an examination on the use of innovative literary techniques in three examples of twentieth century war literature: Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, and Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried. Among others, this thesis considers the use of modernist and post-modernist techniques, as well as the conscious articulation of literary genesis as a means of achieving authenticity in war literature.

Recommended Citation

Nye, Emily A., "Telling the Stories that Can't Be Told: Translating War in Hemingway, Vonnegut, and O'Brien" (2016). Undergraduate Honors Theses. William & Mary. Paper 977.
https://scholarworks.wm.edu/honorstheses/977