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Title:

Kurt Vonnegut / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Edition:

New ed.

Publisher:

Bloom's Literary Criticism,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

vii, 198 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Vonnegut, Kurt--Criticism and interpretation.
Science fiction, American--History and criticism

Other Authors:

Bloom, Harold.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-187) and index.

Contents:

Vonnegut's melancholy / Kathryn Hume -- History and story: Leon Trout's double narrative in Gal©Łpagos / Oliver W. Ferguson -- Sensational implications: Kurt Vonnegut's Player piano (1952) / Donald E. Morse -- The "black frost" reception of Kurt Vonnegut's fantastic novel Breakfast of champions / Donald E. Morse -- Kurt Vonnegut's The sirens of Titan: human will in a Newtonian narrative gone chaotic / M©đnica Calvo Pascual -- Leakings: reappropriating science fiction: the case of Kurt Vonnegut / Tam©Łs B©♭nyei -- Kurt Vonnegut's Player piano; or, "Would you ask EPICAC what people are for?" / Peter Freese -- Surviving the perpetual winter: the role of the little boy in Vonnegut's Cat's cradle / Fumika Nagano -- "This promising of great secrets": literature, ideas, and the (re)invention of reality in Kurt Vonnegut's God bless you, Mr. Rosewater, Slaughterhouse-five, and Breakfast of champions, or "Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world": science fiction and madness in Vonnegut's Troutean trilogy / Josh Simpson -- Evolutionary mythology in the writings of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. / Gilbert McInnis -- "A launching pad of belief": Kurt Vonnegut and postmodern humor / Kevin Brown.

Series:

Bloom's modern critical views

ISBN:

1604131675 (alk. paper)
9781604131673 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)244339659

LCCN:

2008037161

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

HYAX325 -- Iowa Lakes Community College Library - Estherville (Estherville)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)