Leonard Mustazza

The Critical Response to Kurt Vonnegut

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greenwood
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 737g
• ISBN-13: 9780313286346
• ISBN-10: 0313286345
• Artikelnr.: 22335481

Autorenporträt

LEONARD MUSTAZZA is Director of Academic Affairs and Professor of English and American Studies at the Ogontz Campus of Pennsylvania State University. He has authored numerous scholarly articles and two books.

Inhaltsangabe

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