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• Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping: The Subversive Narrative and the New American Eve

  From: South Atlantic Review

  Jan. 19913,382 words Critical essay [(essay date January 1991) In the following essay, Ryan argues that Housekeeping subverts the traditional American myth of wandering--as presented by such canonical male writers as Herman Melville and Mark...

• The Other Side of Grief: American Women and the Vietnam War

  From: Critique

  Fall 19948,445 words Critical essay [(essay date fall 1994) In the following essay, Ryan analyzes several works written by women on the subject of the Vietnam War.] Contemporary American society is saturated with books, movies, television shows, and...

• Barbara Kingsolver's Lowfat Fiction

  From: Journal of America Culture

  Winter 19954,156 words Critical essay The world of contemporary American fiction must be a bewildering circus for many readers, though sales figures indicate that we're buying tickets at a record rate. Venues range from the intimate neighborhood bookshop...

• Robert Olen Butler’s Vietnam Veterans: Strangers in an Alien Home

  From: The Midwest Quarterly

  19977,294 words Critical essay [(essay date 1997) In the following essay, Ryan reconsiders Butler’s Vietnam trilogy, in which the respective protagonists have served together in Vietnam, share combat experience in the same intelligence unit, but...

• Robert Olen Butler's Vietnam veterans: strangers in an alien home

  Author:Maureen RyanFrom:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 38, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 19977,115 words Article Three novels by Robert Olen Butler portray the experience of Vietnam veterans attempting to rejoin US society. 'The Alleys of Eden,' 'Sun Dogs' and 'On Distant Ground' contain narrative evidence that suggests Butler...