Kurt Vonnegut
eBook - ePub

Kurt Vonnegut

  1. 94 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Kurt Vonnegut

About this book

Drawing on his experiences as a young man in the Great Depression and the Second World War, Kurt Vonnegut created a new style of fiction responsive to the post-war world and unique in its appeal to both popular audiences and avant-garde critics. His work was profoundly innovative and yet perfectly lucid. In this comprehensive introductory study, originally published in 1982, Jerome Klinkowitz traces Vonnegut's influences within the American middle class, his early efforts as a short-story writer for magazines in the 1960s and his startling and unprecedented success as a bestselling experimental novelist with Slaughterhouse-Five. His self-consciously moral posture led to readers throughout the world accepting him as their spokesman for humane values, a role which Klinkowitz considers within the context of his work.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2019
eBook ISBN
9781000639209
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. General editors’ preface
  8. Preface and Acknowledgements
  9. A note on the texts
  10. 1 Vonnegut and the New Novel
  11. 2 The Formula Novel: ‘Player Piano’, ‘The Sirens Of Titan’ and ‘Mother Night’
  12. 3 From formula toward experiment: Cat’s Cradle and God Bless You, Mr Rosewater
  13. 4 The Personal Novels: ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’, ‘Breakfast of Champions’, ‘Slapstick’ and ‘Jailbird’
  14. 5 From Metaphor to Discourse
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography