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About this book
Kurt Vonnegut: Myth and Science in the Postmodern World attempts to understand, in Vonnegut's novels, how Darwin's theory of evolution functions as a cosmogonic myth that is widely accepted in order to explain why the world is as it is and why things happen as they do, to provide a rationale for social customs and observances, and to establish the sanctions for the rules by which Vonnegut's characters conduct their lives. Moreover, this study deals with how and why Kurt Vonnegut's fiction represents the changing human image resulting from Darwinism. The book's theoretical approach is based primarily on ideas from myth criticism and complemented by treatises on evolution.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Copyright Acknowledgments
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One: Darwinism, Social Darwinism, and Mythology
- Chapter Two: Mythology and Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection in Galápagos
- Chapter Three: The Principles of the Evolutionary Mythology in Galápagos
- Chapter Four: The Sirens of Titan: Darwin, Einstein, and the Cosmological Connection
- Chapter Five: The Sirens of Titan: Quantum Mechanics, Einstein, and the In-Complete Story
- Chapter Six: Slaughterhouse-Five: Einstein, Natural Selection and the Unified Story
- Chapter Seven: Nazi Mythology and Totalitarian Minds in Mother Night
- Chapter Eight: Adapting to the Evolutionary Mythology in Mother Night
- Chapter Nine: The Myth of the Two Monsters in Breakfast of Champions
- Chapter Ten: Evolutionary Mythology in the Writings of Kurt Vonnegut