Critical Essays On Kurt Vonnegut
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Critical Essays On Kurt Vonnegut
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Author : Robert Merrill
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Release Date : 1990
Critical Essays On Kurt Vonnegut written by Robert Merrill and has been published by Macmillan Reference USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Authors, American categories.
This volume contains reviews of Vonnegut's major works and essays surveying his career and the history of scholarship on his fiction. The essays show an author preoccupied with life's apparent lack of meaning and purpose, with war and human suffering, and with the precariousness of human psychological and physical survival. Topics covered include: Vonnegut's use of literary devices such as defamiliarization and the hero monomyth; and the theme of the artificially created extended family as a bulwark against loneliness. Of particular interest are Robert Scholes' "Kurt Vonnegut and Black Humor"; David Cowart's "Culture and Anarchy: Vonnegut's Later Career"; and Kathryn Hume's "Kurt Vonnegut and the Myths and Symbols of Meaning." ISBN 0-8161-8893-9: $38.00.
New Critical Essays On Kurt Vonnegut
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Author : D. Simmons
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-12-04
New Critical Essays On Kurt Vonnegut written by D. Simmons and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
Kurt Vonnegut's darkly comic work became a symbol for the counterculture of a generation. From his debut novel, Player Piano (1951) through seminal 1960's novels such as Cat's Cradle (1963) and Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) up to the recent success of A Man Without A Country (2005), Vonnegut's writing has remained commercially popular, offering a satirical yet optimistic outlook on modern life. Though many fellow writers admired Vonnegut - Gore Vidal famously suggesting that "Kurt was never dull" - the academic establishment has tended to retain a degree of scepticism concerning the validity of his work. This dynamic collection aims to re-evaluate Vonnegut's position as an integral part of the American post-war cannon of literature.
Kurt Vonnegut S Slaughterhouse Five
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Author : Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2009
Kurt Vonnegut S Slaughterhouse Five written by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Criticism categories.
Presents a collection of critical essays about Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five.
The Critical Response To Kurt Vonnegut
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Author : Leonard Mustazza
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 1994-10-26
The Critical Response To Kurt Vonnegut written by Leonard Mustazza and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-10-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
From the time he left his job as a publicist for General Electric in 1950 to pursue a career as a writer, Kurt Vonnegut has made an indelible mark on American literature. During the first decade of his career, his work appeared chiefly in paperback. With the hardcover publication of Cat's Cradle in 1963, his writings received increasing attention, with criticism of Vonnegut's work flourishing during the decades that followed. This volume traces the critical response to his work. Included in this book are reviews and critical essays on Vonnegut's writings from the roots of his career to the present day. The critical pieces are arranged chronologically from a review of Player Piano to an article on Hocus Pocus. The book systematically covers the critical response to every one of Vonnegut's novels. The first part of the book covers Vonnegut's rise to critical success with the publication of Slaughterhouse-Five in 1969, while the second part focuses on his later work, from Breakfast of Champions (1970) through Hocus Pocus (1990). A selected bibliography concludes the work.
Kurt Vonnegut S Slaughterhouse Five
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Author : Harold Bloom
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2007
Kurt Vonnegut S Slaughterhouse Five written by Harold Bloom and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Criticism categories.
Discusses the characters, plot and writing of Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut. Includes critical essays on the novel and a brief biography of the author.
Slaughterhouse Five By Kurt Vonnegut
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Author : Leonard Mustazza
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Slaughterhouse Five By Kurt Vonnegut written by Leonard Mustazza and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with LITERARY CRITICISM categories.
Collects critical essays on Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five," including selections by Kevin Alexander Boon, C. Barry Chabot, Leonard Mustazza, and others; and includes a chronology of the life of the author.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Author : Harold Bloom
language : en
Publisher: Chelsea House
Release Date : 2009
Kurt Vonnegut written by Harold Bloom and has been published by Chelsea House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Science fiction, American categories.
Collects eleven critical essays on various works by American writer Kurt Vonnegut, covering texts such as "Slaughterhouse-Five" and "Cat's Cradle."
Kurt Vonnegut Letters
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Author : Kurt Vonnegut
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-10-30
Kurt Vonnegut Letters written by Kurt Vonnegut and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-30 with Literary Collections categories.
This collection of Vonnegut’s letters is the autobiography he never wrote – from the letter he posted home upon being freed from a German POW camp, to notes of advice to his children: ‘Don’t let anybody tell you that smoking and boozing are bad for you. Here I am fifty-five years old, and I never felt better in my life’. Peppered with insights, one-liners and missives to the likes of Norman Mailer, Gunter Grass and Bernard Malamud, Vonnegut is funny, wise and modest. As he himself said: ‘I am an American fad—of a slightly higher order than the hula hoop’. Like Vonnegut’s books, his letters make you think, they make you outraged and they make you laugh. Written over a sixty-year period, and never published before, these letters are alive with the unique point of view that made Vonnegut one of the most original writers in American fiction.
The Short Fiction Of Kurt Vonnegut
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Author : Peter Reed
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1997-10-30
The Short Fiction Of Kurt Vonnegut written by Peter Reed and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-10-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Kurt Vonnegut's career as a novelist encompasses virtually the whole second half of the twentieth century, and his novels are among the most widely read in America. Yet Vonnegut enjoyed another successful career as a short story writer. His short fiction brought him much acclaim in the early years of his writing career and made him visible to a very large audience. His stories were illustrated by some of the best artists in the business and were featured prominently in leading magazines such as Collier's^ the Saturday Evening Post, Ladies Home Journal, Cosmopolitan, and Argosy. Commentary on Vonnegut has generally separated his career as a novelist from his career as a short story writer. This volume provides a detailed analysis of Vonnegut's short fiction and shows that his short stories are an integral part of his overall canon. The short stories do not simply precede Vonnegut's novels. There is an extensive overlap of the publication of his novels and his shorter works. In writing short fiction, Vonnegut learned and practiced many of the skills and techniques that he employs in his novels. This volume begins by examining the relationship of the short fiction to the larger body of Vonnegut's writings. It then examines Vonnegut's earliest training as a writer, during his high school years and as a college journalist. The chapters that follow are then devoted to later periods in his life, the development of his short stories, and the recurrence of their techniques and content in Vonnegut's novels. The study concludes with a reassessment of the importance of the short story to Vonnegut's canon.
Kurt Vonnegut S Slaughterhouse Five As Historiographic Metafiction
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Author : Markus Schneider
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2008-11-05
Kurt Vonnegut S Slaughterhouse Five As Historiographic Metafiction written by Markus Schneider and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-05 with Literary Collections categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,3, University of Bamberg (Professur für Amerikanistik), course: American Historiographic Metafiction, 10 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The representation of history depends mainly on the perspective, attitude and cultural background of the beholder; which at the same time marks the major flaw of historiography. One topic or event will never be identically described by two historians, even if they are given the very same materials and sources to work with. As a consequence, historiography can only try to create an image, as true and original as possible, but is never able to depict everything that happened as it actually was in its full scope. So there were and always will be fictional elements and interpretations in the reports and writings about past events. This assumption leads us to historiographic metafiction, a style of writing that emerged during the postmodern era. If there is fiction in scholarly historiography, where is the difference between that and a novel that deals with history? This term paper will try to give an answer to that question and examine features and characteristics of historiographic metafiction, which eventually will be applied to Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five. In postmodern literature and, of course, especially in historiographic metafiction, authors tried to find new ways of telling stories and particularly representing history. I will take a closer look at the narrative frame and especially the concept of time Vonnegut used in the novel. But how is history represented in Slaughterhouse-Five? This will be the second part of the analysis that will attempt to find answers why Vonnegut wrote the novel the way he did. The third part will deal with intertextual elements in the novel. All citations from the novel and the pages indicated in brackets are taken from the edition cited below.