Tim O’Brien also uses time travel in his critically acclaimed novel, In the Lake of the Woods. What makes these journeys to the past so much easier to identify and pay attention to in O’Brien’s novel versus Miller’s play? The answer: format and point of view. In In the Lake of the Woods, scattered throughoutContinue reading “Turning Back the Clock: How Flashbacks Are Used in Literature (Part 2)”
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Turning Back the Clock: How Flashbacks Are Used in Literature (Part 1)
Time. Time is something that affects us all. We can feel it aging us, passing us by – we know we are living right in the midst of it. However, despite our intimate experience with it, the vast wealth of human ingenuity and knowledge has yet to afford us with a way to travel backContinue reading “Turning Back the Clock: How Flashbacks Are Used in Literature (Part 1)”