The Critical Response to Kurt Vonnegut

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Leonard Mustazza

Book Code: MZV/

ISBN: 0-313-28634-5

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-28634-6

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384 pages

Greenwood Press

Publication: 10/30/1994

List Price: $106.95 (UK Sterling Price: £59.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 X 9 1/4

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Series Title: Critical Responses in Arts and Letters

Series Number: 14

Description: 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.

Table of Contents:

Series Foreword
Preface
Introduction
The Road to Critical Success, 1952-1969
A Review of Player Piano by Paul Pickrel
The Theme of Mechanization in Player Piano by Thomas P. Hoffman
It's All a Joke: Science Fiction in Kurt Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan by Ellen Cronan Rose
Science and Parody in Kurt Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan by Joseph Sigman
A Review of Mother Night by William James Smith
Vonnegut's Responsibility (A Review of Mother Night) by Doris Lessing
That Way Lies Madness: Mother Night by Stanley Schatt
After the Bomb, Dad Came Up with Ice (A Review of Cat's Cradle) by Terry Southern
Afterthought (A Review of Cat's Cradle) by Alan Brien
Rescuing Science from Technocracy: Cat's Cradle and the Play of Apocalypse by Daniel L. Zins
Mother Night, Cat's Cradle and the Crimes of Our Time by Jerome Klinkowitz
Thanks for the Sunset (A Review of God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater) by Granville Hicks
(God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater) from Kurt Vonnegut: Fantasist of Fire and Ice by David H. Goldsmith
Vonnegut and Shakespeare: Rosewater at Elsinore by William L. Godshalk
Sci-Fi and Vonnegut (A Review of Slaughterhouse-Five) by J. Michael Crichton
The Arbitrary Cycle of Slaughterhouse-Five: A Relation of Form to Theme by Wayne D. McGinnis
Vonnegut's Humor and the Limits of Hope by John R. May
The Critical Mainstream, 1970-1993
The Ideas of an Anti-Intellectual (A Review of Breakfast of Champions and The Vonnegut Statement) by Charles Nicol
Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions: The Conversion of Heliogabalus by Robert Merrill
Vonnegut's World of Comic Futility by Lynn Buck
Expected Meaning in Vonnegut's Dead-End Fiction by Robert W. Uphaus
Bringing Chaos to Order: The Novel Tradition and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. by Mary Sue Schriber
A Review of Slapstick by Jerome Klinkowitz
Paradise Re-Lost (A Review of Slapstick) by Loree Rackstraw
The Definition of Love: Kurt Vonnegut's Slapstick by Russell Blackford
Vonnegut's Softer Focus (A Review of Jailbird) by Michael Wood
Kurt Vonnegut and His Critics: The Aesthetics of Accessiblity by John Irving
(Jailbird) from Kurt Vonnegut by Jerome Klinkowitz
Vonnegut's Self-Projections: Symbolic Characters and Symbolic Fiction by Kathryn Hume
A Riot of Randomness (A Review of Deadeye Dick) by Benjamin DeMott
Vaporizing Midland City (A Review of Deadeye Dick) by Gary Giddins
Deadeye Dick: The Resolution of Vonnegut's Creative Schizophrenia by Lawrence R. Broer
How Humans Got Flippers and Beaks (A Review of Galapagos) by Lorrie Moore
The Theory of Evolution, According to Vonnegut (A Review of Galapagos) by David Bianculli
A Darwinian Eden: Science and Myth in Kurt Vonnegut's Galapagos by Leonard Mustazza
Vonnegut: New Twists to Old Tricks (A Review of Bluebeard) by James Lundquist
The Genesis Gang: Art and Re-Creation in Bluebeard) by Leonard Mustazza
Black Magic (A Review of Hocus Pocus) by John Leonard
Still Asking the Embarrassing Questions (A Review of Hocus Pocus) by Jay McInerney
History and Fabrication in Kurt Vonnegut's Hocus Pocus by Bill Mistichelli
Selected Bibliography
Index

LC Card Number: 94-29147

LCC Class: PS3572

Dewey Class: 813


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