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New critical essays on Kurt Vonnegut

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	New critical essays on Kurt Vonnegutedited by David Simmons.
other author:	Simmons, David,
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2009.
Description:	xv, 233 p. ;22 cm.
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230100817

New critical essays on Kurt Vonnegut
New critical essays on Kurt Vonnegut[electronic resource] /edited by David Simmons. - 1st ed. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2009. - xv, 233 p. ;22 cm. - American literature readings in the 21st century. - American literature readings in the 21st century..

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Flabbergasted / Todd Davis -- "No damn cat, and no damn cradle": The Fundamental Flaws in Fundamentalism According to Vonnegut / P. L. Thomas -- Mother Night / Philip Tew -- The Journey Home in Kurt Vonnegut's World War II Novels / Elizabeth Abele -- "God damn it, you've got to be kind": War and Altruism in the Works of Kurt Vonnegut / Rachel McCoppin -- Resilience, Time and the Ability of Humor to Salvageany Situation: Bagombo Snuff Box / Jessica Lingel -- Apocalypse in theOptative Mood: Gaálapagos, or, Starting Over / Robert Tally -- Art, Sentiment, and Vonnegut's Women / Susan E. Farrell -- God Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut: Tall Tales for the Final Years / Michael Hemmingson -- Vonnegut and Hemmingway / Lawrence Broer -- Reassessing Vonnegut and His Position in the Countercultural Canon / David Simmons -- Vonnegut's Satire and Contemporary British Writers: Jonathan Coe, Will Self / Nicola Allen -- Vonnegut and Contemporary Apocalyptic Fiction / Chris Glover.

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 integralpart of the American post-war cannon of literature.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230100817

Standard No.: 10.1057/9780230100817doiSubjects--Personal Names:

461072
Vonnegut, Kurt
--Criticism and interpretation.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PS3572.O5 / Z793 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.54

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