Kurt Vonnegut
By: edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Contributors: Bloom, Harold.
Edition: New ed.
Series: Modern critical views
Publisher: Bloom's Literary Criticism
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781604131673
Subjects: Vonnegut, Kurt -- Criticism and interpretation; Science fiction, American -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Vonnegut's melancholy / Kathryn Hume; title: History and story: Leon Trout's double narrative in Galapagos / Oliver W. Ferguson; title: Sensational implications: Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano (1952) / Donald E. Morse; title: The 'black frost' reception of Kurt Vonnegut's fantastic novel Breakfast of Champions / Donald E. Morse; title: Kurt Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan: human will in a Newtonian narrative gone chaotic / Mónica Calvo Pascual; title: Leakings: reappropriating science fiction: the case of Kurt Vonnegut / Tamas Benyei; title: Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano; or, 'would you ask EPICAC what people are for?' / Peter Freese; title: Surviving the perpetual winter: the role of the little boy in Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle / Fumika Nagano; title: 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; title: Evolutionary mythology in the writings of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr / Gilbert McInnis; title: A launching pad of belief: Kurt Vonnegut and postmodern humor / Kevin Brown.