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The Things They Carried: Critical Essay by Catherine Calloway

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SOURCE: Calloway, Catherine. “‘How to Tell a True War Story’: Metafiction in The Things They Carried.Critique 36, no. 4 (summer 1995): 249-57.

In the following essay, Calloway provides a stylistic analysis of The Things They Carried, regarding the volume as a work of contemporary metafiction.

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