New critical essays on Kurt Vonnegut

New critical essays on Kurt Vonnegut

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Kurt Vonnegut's darkly comic work became a symbol for the counterculture of ageneration. From his debut novel, Player Piano (1951) through seminal 1960'snovels such as Cat's Cradle (1963). This dynamic collection aims to re-evaluate Vonnegut's position as an integral part of the American post-war cannon of literature. DAVID SIMMONS Lecturer in American Literature, Film, and Television studies at the University of Northampton, UK. He has written and published material on a wide range of issues related to twentieth-century popular fiction and culture, including the sixties' counter-cultural movement, H. P. Lovecraft, the American horror film, and contemporary genre television. David is currently editing an upcoming collection on contemporary canonical British and US novels. INDICE: Introduction; 'D.Simmons' - PART I: VONNEGUT'S EARLY LITERATURE 1950-1969 - Flabbergasted; 'T.Davis' - Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night: Howard W. Campbell, Jr., and the Banalities of Evil; 'P.Tew' - 'No damn cat, and no damn cradle': The Fundamental Flaws in Fundamentalism According to Vonnegut;' P.L.Thomas' - 'God damn it, you've got to be kind': War and Altruism in the Works of Kurt Vonnegut; 'R.McCoppin ' - The Journey Home in Kurt Vonnegut's World War II Novels; 'E.Abele ' - PART II: VONNEGUT'S LATER WRITING 1970-2005 - Art, Domesticity, and Vonnegut's Women;' S.E.Farrell ' - Apocalypse in the OptativeMood: Galápagos, or, Starting Over; 'R.Tally ' - Folding Time: History, Subjectivity, and Intimacy in Vonnegut; 'L.Jowett' - Resilience, Time and the Ability of Humor to Salvage any Situation: Bagombo Snuff Box; 'J.Lingel ' - PART III: VONNEGUT AND OTHER WRITERS - Duty Dance with Death: A Farewell to Arms and Slaughterhouse-Five; 'L.Broer' - 'Somewhere in There Was Springtime': Kurt Vonnegut, His Apocalypses, and His Post-9/11 Heirs; 'C.Glover ' - Wampeters and Foma? Misreading Religion in Cat's Cradle and The Book of Dave; 'C.Allen - '

  • ISBN: 978-0-230-12097-6
  • Editorial: Palgrave MacM
  • Encuadernacion: Rústica
  • Páginas: 250
  • Fecha Publicación: 14/10/2011
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés