- Publication: Critical Essays on Kurt VonnegutPublication Record # 945592
- Author: Robert Merrill
- Date: 1990-00-00
- ISBN: 0-8161-8893-9 [978-0-8161-8893-2]
- Publisher: G. K. Hall & Co.
- Pages: x+235
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Format: hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
- Type: NONFICTION
- Webpages: archive.org
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Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut • nonfiction by
Robert Merrill
Contents (view Concise Listing)
- 1 • Introduction (Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut) • essay by Robert Merrill
- 29 • New Terms and Goons • (1952) • essay by Rog Phillips [as by Charles Lee]
- 29 • Review: Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. • (1952) • review by Rog Phillips [as by Charles Lee]
- 30 • After the Bomb, Dad Came Up with Ice • essay by Terry Southern
- 30 • Review: Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. • review by Terry Southern
- 31 • Kurt Vonnegut on Target • essay by C. D. B. Bryan
- 37 • [History as Fabulation]: Slaughterhouse-Five • essay by Robert Scholes
- 37 • Review: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. • review by Robert Scholes
- 39 • Nothing Sacred • essay by Peter S. Prescott
- 39 • Review: Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. • review by Peter S. Prescott
- 40 • All's Well in Skyscraper National Park • essay by John Updike
- 40 • Review: Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. • review by John Updike
- 47 • Vonnegut the Diviner and Other Auguries • essay by Loree Rackstraw
- 47 • Review: Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. • review by Loree Rackstraw
- 53 • The Vonnegut Cosmos • essay by Loree Rackstraw
- 53 • Review: Deadeye Dick by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. • review by Loree Rackstraw
- 62 • God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, for Kurt Vonnegut's Latest • essay by Peter J. Reed
- 62 • Review: Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. • review by Peter J. Reed
- 64 • Poking Holes in the Social Fabric • essay by Paul Skenazy
- 64 • Review: Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. • review by Paul Skenazy
- 67 • Why They Read Vonnegut • (1973) • essay by Jerome Klinkowitz
- 74 • [Kurt Vonnegut and Black Humor] • essay by Robert Scholes
- 82 • Mother Night, Cat's Cradle, and the Crimes of Our Time • (1973) • essay by Jerome Klinkowitz
- 94 • Tangled Up in You: A Playful Reading of Cat's Cradle • essay by John L. Simons
- 108 • [Economic Neurosis: Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater] • essay by Peter J. Reed
- 125 • [The Uncertain Messenger: A Reading of Slaughterhouse-Five] • essay by Tony Tanner
- 131 • Illusion and Absurdity: The Novels of Kurt Vonnegut • essay by Charles B. Harris
- 142 • Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five: The Requirements of Chaos • essay by Robert Merrill and Peter A. Scholl
- 153 • Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions: The Conversion of Heliogabalus • essay by Robert Merrill
- 162 • Vonnegut's Comic Persona in Breakfast of Champions • essay by Charles Berryman
- 170 • Culture and Anarchy: Vonnegut's Later Career • essay by David Cowart
- 188 • Vonnegut and Evolution: Galápagos • essay by Charles Berryman
- 201 • Kurt Vonnegut and the Myths and Symbols of Meaning • essay by Kathryn Hume
- 216 • The Heraclitean Cosmos of Kurt Vonnegut • essay by Kathryn Hume
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