Identify which critical approach is represented by the passage; explain your answer. If you think the author is using more than one approach, explain. About Tim O'Brien, author of Things They Carried... "Drafted in 1968, Tim O'Brien served in Vietnam in 1969, and in the fall of 1970 he enrolled in Harvard University's doctoral program in government. During his first year of graduate school O'Brien began writing If I Die in a Combat Zone, a memoir of his Vietnam experiences. Taking a year off from Harvard in 1973-74 to work as a general assignment reporter for the Washington Post, O'Brien also found time to write Northern Lights, his first novel. Realizing that the form of If I Die did not allow him to get at important psychological truths or to fully explore the meaning of his Vietnam experiences, and convinced that the life of the imagination is half of war--indeed, half of any kind of experience--O'Brien gave his fertile imagination free rein in Going After Cacciato, a highly inventive and skillfully crafted novel which won the National Book Award in 1978 over John Irving's celebrated The World According to Garp. Returning to the apocalyptic themes of Northern Lights, O'Brien's most recent work, The Nuclear Age, is a warning that our species will not survive if we continue to conceive of the Bomb and nuclear war as mere metaphors. We must, O'Brien's protagonist continually exhorts us, imagine the real. A painstaking and meticulous craftsman in his own writing, O'Brien nonetheless insists that style is not the most important element of good literature."
Identify which critical approach is represented by the passage; explain your answer. If you think the author is using more than one approach, explain.
About Tim O'Brien, author of Things They Carried...
"Drafted in 1968, Tim O'Brien served in Vietnam in 1969, and in the fall of 1970 he enrolled in Harvard University's doctoral program in government. During his first year of graduate school O'Brien began writing If I Die in a Combat Zone, a memoir of his Vietnam experiences. Taking a year off from Harvard in 1973-74 to work as a general assignment reporter for the Washington Post, O'Brien also found time to write Northern Lights, his first novel. Realizing that the form of If I Die did not allow him to get at important psychological truths or to fully explore the meaning of his Vietnam experiences, and convinced that the life of the imagination is half of war--indeed, half of any kind of experience--O'Brien gave his fertile imagination free rein in Going After Cacciato, a highly inventive and skillfully crafted novel which won the National Book Award in 1978 over John Irving's celebrated The World According to Garp. Returning to the apocalyptic themes of Northern Lights, O'Brien's most recent work, The Nuclear Age, is a warning that our species will not survive if we continue to conceive of the Bomb and nuclear war as mere metaphors. We must, O'Brien's protagonist continually exhorts us, imagine the real.
A painstaking and meticulous craftsman in his own writing, O'Brien nonetheless insists that style is not the most important element of good literature."
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