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Critical essays on Kurt Vonnegut / [edited by] Robert Merrill.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical essays on American literaturePublication details: Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, c1990.Description: x, 235 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0816188939 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813/.54 20
LOC classification:
  • PS3572.O5 Z62 1990
Contents:
Introduction / Robert Merrill -- New terms and goons : review of Player piano / Charles Lee -- After the bomb, Dad came up with ice : review of Cat's cradle / Terry Southern -- Kurt Vonnegut on target / C.D.B. Bryan -- (History as fabulation) : Slaughterhouse-five / Robert Scholes -- Nothing sacred : review of Breakfast of champions / Peter S. Prescott -- All's well in Skyscraper National Park : review of Slapstick / John Updike -- Vonnegut the diviner and other auguries : review of Jailbird ; The Vonnegut cosmos : review of Deadeye Dick / Loree Rackstraw -- God bless you, Mr. Darwin, for Kurt Vonnegut's latest : review of Galápagos / Peter J. Reed -- Poking holes in the social fabric : review of Bluebeard / Paul Skenazy -- Why they read Vonnegut / Jerome Klinkowitz -- (Kurt Vonnegut and black humor) / Robert Scholes -- Mother night, Cat's cradle, and the crimes of our time / Jerome Klinkowitz -- Tangled up in you : a playful reading of Cat's cradle / John L. Simons -- (Economic neurosis : Kurt Vonnegut's God bless you, Mr. Rosewater) / Peter J. Reed -- (The uncertain messenger : a reading of Slaughterhouse-five) / Tony Tanner -- Illusion and absurdity : the novels of Kurt Vonnegut / Charles B. Harris -- Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five : the requirements of chaos / Robert Merrill and Peter A. Scholl -- Vonnegut's Breakfast of champions : the conversion of Heliogabalus / Robert Merrill -- Vonnegut's comic persona in Breakfast of champions / Charles Berryman -- Culture and anarchy : Vonnegut's later career / David Cowart -- Vonnegut and evolution : Galápagos / Charles Berryman -- Kurt Vonnegut and the myths and symbols of meaning ; The Heraclitean cosmos of Kurt Vonnegut / Kathryn Hume.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Introduction / Robert Merrill -- New terms and goons : review of Player piano / Charles Lee -- After the bomb, Dad came up with ice : review of Cat's cradle / Terry Southern -- Kurt Vonnegut on target / C.D.B. Bryan -- (History as fabulation) : Slaughterhouse-five / Robert Scholes -- Nothing sacred : review of Breakfast of champions / Peter S. Prescott -- All's well in Skyscraper National Park : review of Slapstick / John Updike -- Vonnegut the diviner and other auguries : review of Jailbird ; The Vonnegut cosmos : review of Deadeye Dick / Loree Rackstraw -- God bless you, Mr. Darwin, for Kurt Vonnegut's latest : review of Galápagos / Peter J. Reed -- Poking holes in the social fabric : review of Bluebeard / Paul Skenazy -- Why they read Vonnegut / Jerome Klinkowitz -- (Kurt Vonnegut and black humor) / Robert Scholes -- Mother night, Cat's cradle, and the crimes of our time / Jerome Klinkowitz -- Tangled up in you : a playful reading of Cat's cradle / John L. Simons -- (Economic neurosis : Kurt Vonnegut's God bless you, Mr. Rosewater) / Peter J. Reed -- (The uncertain messenger : a reading of Slaughterhouse-five) / Tony Tanner -- Illusion and absurdity : the novels of Kurt Vonnegut / Charles B. Harris -- Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five : the requirements of chaos / Robert Merrill and Peter A. Scholl -- Vonnegut's Breakfast of champions : the conversion of Heliogabalus / Robert Merrill -- Vonnegut's comic persona in Breakfast of champions / Charles Berryman -- Culture and anarchy : Vonnegut's later career / David Cowart -- Vonnegut and evolution : Galápagos / Charles Berryman -- Kurt Vonnegut and the myths and symbols of meaning ; The Heraclitean cosmos of Kurt Vonnegut / Kathryn Hume.