| Description |
ix, 358 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Critical insights |
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Critical insights.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-344) and index. |
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"Works by Kurt Vonnegut": pages 341-342. |
| Contents |
On Slaughterhouse-five / Leonard Mustazza -- Biography of Kurt Vonnegut / Peter J. Reed -- The Paris review perspective / Sarah Fay for The Paris review -- The critical reception of Slaughterhouse-five / Jerome Klinkowitz -- Temporal cohesion and disorientation in Slaughterhouse-five: a chronicle of form cuts and transitional devices in the novel / Kevin Alexander Boon -- "The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true": negotiating the reality of World War II in Slaughterhouse-five and Catch-22 / David Simmons -- The Vietnamization of World War II in Slaughterhouse-five and Gravity's rainbow / Christina Jarvis -- Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five and the fiction of atrocity / Donald J. Greiner -- Slaughterhouse-five : novel and film / Joyce Nelson -- Slaughterhouse-five : time out of joint / Arnold Edelstein -- The arbitrary cycle of Slaughterhouse-five : a relation of form to theme / Wayne D. McGinnis -- The ironic Christ figure in Slaughterhouse-five / Dolores K. Gros Louis -- Slaughterhouse-five : Kurt Vonnegut's anti-memoirs / Maurice J. O'Sullivan, Jr. -- The "new reality" of Slaughterhouse-five / James Lundquist -- Slaughterhouse-five and the comforts of indifference / C. Barry Chabot -- "This lousy little book" : the genesis and development of Slaughterhouse-five as revealed in chapter one / T. J. Matheson -- Adam and Eve in the golden depths : Edenic madness in Slaughterhouse-five / Leonard Mustazza -- Slaughterhouse-five / William Rodney Allen -- Vonnegut as messenger : Slaughterhouse-five / Donald E. Morse -- Slaughterhouse-five : existentialist themes elaborated in a postmodern way / Hans van Stralen -- Diagnosing Billy Pilgrim : a psychiatric approach to Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five / Susanne Vees-Gulani -- Speaking personally : Slaughterhouse-five and the essays / Jerome Klinkowitz. |
| Summary |
Collects critical essays on Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five," including selections by Kevin Alexander Boon, C. Barry Chabot, Leonard Mustazza, and others; and includes a chronology of the life of the author. |
| Subject |
Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-five -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Slaughterhouse-five (Vonnegut, Kurt) (OCoLC)fst01360103
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| Added Author |
Mustazza, Leonard, 1952-
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| ISBN |
9781587657214 (alkaline paper) |
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158765721X (alkaline paper) |
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