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Kurt Vonnegut / editor, Rob Tally

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Critical insights. Kurt Vonnegut
Published
Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, [2013]
Copyright Date
©2013
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiv, 314 pages).
Additional Creators
Tally, Robert T., Jr.
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Career, life, and influence. On Kurt Vonnegut ; Biography of Kurt Vonnegut -- Critical context. Tralfamadore is America : cultural history in Slaughterhouse-five ; The curious reception of Kurt Vonnegut ; Worlds of wordcraft : the metafiction of Kurt Vonnegut ; Walker Percy : Kurt Vonnegut for adults -- Critical readings. "Instructions for use" : the opening chapter of Slaughterhouse-five and the reader of historiographical metafictions ; Looking for Vonnegut : confronting genre and the author/narrator divide ; Vonnegut and religion : daydreaming about God ; Another "Atheist's bible" : knowledge defeats hocus pocus ; Anthropology across the universe : folk societies in the early novels of Kurt Vonnegut ; The myth of the two monsters in Breakfast of champions ; Time, transformation, and the reading process in Vonnegut ; Can a machine be a gentleman? : machine ethics and ethical machines ; Humane harmony : environmentalism and culture in Vonnegut's writings -- Resources. Chronology of Kurt Vonnegut's life ; Works by Kurt Vonnegut.
Summary
This volume presents a biographical sketch that relates details of Kurt Vonnegut's life, and four essays that survey the critical reception of his work, explore its cultural and historical contexts, situate him among his contemporaries, and review key themes in his work. Other essays explore a bevy of topics, such as major thematic trajectories, the significance of metafiction, Vonnegut's relationship with conventional Christianity, and his use of generic conventions.
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ISBN
1429838485 (electronic bk.)
9781429838481 (electronic bk.)
1299311490 (ebk)
9781299311497 (ebk)
9781429838320 (hardcover)
1429838329 (hardcover)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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