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Kurt Vonnegut / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Summary:

Collects eleven critical essays on various works by American writer Kurt Vonnegut, covering texts such as "Slaughterhouse-Five" and "Cat's Cradle."

Record details

ISBN: 9781604131673 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 1604131675 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: vii, 198 pages ; 25 cm.
Edition: New edition.
Publisher: New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2009.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-187) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Vonnegut's melancholy / Kathryn Hume -- History and story: Leon Trout's double narrative in Galapagos / Oliver W. Ferguson -- Sensational implications: Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano (1952) / Donald E. Morse -- The 'black frost' reception of Kurt Vonnegut's fantastic novel Breakfast of Champions / Donald E. Morse -- Kurt Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan: human will in a Newtonian narrative gone chaotic / Mónica Calvo Pascual -- Leakings: reappropriating science fiction: the case of Kurt Vonnegut / Tamas Benyei -- Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano; or, 'would you ask EPICAC what people are for?' / Peter Freese -- Surviving the perpetual winter: the role of the little boy in Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle / Fumika Nagano -- This promising of great secrets: literature, ideas, and the (re)invention of reality in Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Slaughterhouse-Five, and Breakfast of Champions, or 'fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world': science fiction and madness in Vonnegut's Troutean trilogy / Josh Simpson -- Evolutionary mythology in the writings of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr / Gilbert McInnis -- A launching pad of belief: Kurt Vonnegut and postmodern humor / Kevin Brown.