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Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut William Rodney Allen ... since I was a Chemistry major, I had very little instruction from the profoundly literary people. CR: And yet you refer frequently to writers like Celine 196 Two Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut Charles Reilly.
Kurt Vonnegut: Letters
Kurt VonnegutThis collection of Vonnegut’s letters is the autobiography he never wrote – from the letter he posted home upon being freed from a German POW camp, to notes of advice to his children: ‘Don’t let anybody tell you that smoking and ...
Kurt Vonnegut's America
Jerome KlinkowitzKurt Vonnegut's America integrates discussion of the fiction, essays, and lectures with personal exchanges and biographical sketches to map the complex symbiotic relationship between Vonnegut's work and the cultural context from which it ...
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five
Harold BloomHarold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom. PETER FREESE. Kurt. Vonnegut's. Slaughterhouse-Five. or,. How. to. Storify. an. Atrocity. D. uring the night of February 13, 1945, three waves of British and ...
Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
Kurt VonnegutWhen someone reads one of your books, what would you like them to take from the experience? Well, I’d like the guy—or the girl, of course—to put the book down and think, “This is the greatest man who ever lived.”
The Role of Science Fiction: Asimov & Vonnegut - a Comparison
Stefan WeihampelWestport: Greenwood, 2002. 26 Nadeau, Robert L. “Physics and Metaphysics in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.” Mosaic. 13:2 (1980): 37-47. 27 Marvin, Thomas F. Kurt Vonnegut: A Critical Companion. Westport: Greenwood, 2002. 28 Tomedi ...
Bluebeard
Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut has surpassed even his own giddy heights of hilariously bitter irony in Bluebeard. It is a novel so funny and yet so terribly serious that you will read it - then reconsider your own life.
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five
PreviewCopyright © 1999 by Richard Giannone. Used by permission of the author. “The ' New Reality' of Slaughterhouse-Five” by James Lundquist. From Kurt Vonnegut by James Lundquist, pp. 71–78. © 1977 by Continuum International Publishing ...
A Man Without a Country
Kurt VonnegutA Man Without a Country is Kurt Vonnegut’s hilariously funny and razor-sharp look at life ("If I die—God forbid—I would like to go to heaven to ask somebody in charge up there, ‘Hey, what was the good news and what was the bad news? ...
Kurt Vonnegut
James LundquistAssesses the nature of Vonnegut's popularity, the quality of his humor, the ornaments of his style, and the importance of his concerns and techniques
Kurt Vonnegut's America
Jerome KlinkowitzLooks at the career of the novelist, drawing connections between Vonnegut's writings and social and historical developments along with an assessment of his impact on American culture and society.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
Stanley SchattTraces the development of Vonnegut's style and philosophy, considering his novels, short stories, and plays, and looks at the American writer as a public man who speaks out on contemporary issues
Reading, Learning, Teaching Kurt Vonnegut
Paul Lee ThomasPaul Lee Thomas. > Welcome to the Monkey House Short Stories "Thanks to popular magazines, I learned on the job to be a fiction writer," confesses Vonnegut (1999a) in his collection Bagombo Snuff Box (p. 290). Vonnegut began publishing ...
And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life
Charles J. ShieldsThe twenty-first century has seen interest in and scholarship about Vonnegut's works grow even stronger, and this is the first book to examine in full the life of one of the most influential iconoclasts of his time.
Cat's Cradle: A Novel
Kurt VonnegutA book that left an indelible mark on an entire generation of readers, Cat’s Cradle is one of the twentieth century’s most important works—and Vonnegut at his very best. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Kurt Vonnegut: A Critical Companion
Thomas F. MarvinOffers an examination of the works of the American science fiction writer.
Kurt Vonnegut
Jerome KlinkowitzOffers a profile of the American writer, discusses the main themes of each of his novels, and describes his place in modern literature
Contemporary American Novelists of the Absurd
Charles H. HarrisExamines the themes and styles of the absurdist novelists Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Thomas Pynchon, and John Barth
Never Come Morning
Nelson AlgrenIntroduction by Kurt Vonnegut 'The best book to come out of Chicago' - Ernest Hemmingway '...depicts the intensity of feeling, the tawdry but potent dreams, the crude but forceful poetry, and the frustrated longing for human dignity ...
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
Kurt VonnegutWhat began as a series of ninety-second radio interludes for WNYC, New York City's public radio station, evolved into this provocative collection of musings about who and what we live for, and how much it all matters in the end.
Kurt Schwitters: MERZ--a Total Vision of the World
Kurt Schwitters10 On alchemy, see Elizabeth Burns Gamard, Kurt Schwitters' Merzbau: The Cathedral of Erotic Mistery, New York 2000, p. 141 and Kurt Schwitters, 'lch und meine Ziele', 1931, in Friedhelm Lach (ed.), Kurt Schwitters: Das literarische Werk: ...
Fear And Loathing In America: The Brutal Odyssey of an ...
Hunter S. ThompsonLetters spanning the years between 1968 and 1976 highlight the author's biting wit, scary powers of observation, and encounters with such notables as Jimmy Carter, Tom Wolfe, and Kurt Vonnegut.
Ignoring Poverty in the U.S.: The Corporate Takeover of ...
P. L. Thomas(Springer, 2009), co-authored with Renita Schmidt. He has also published books on Barbara Kingsolver, Kurt Vonnegut, Margaret Atwood, and Ralph Ellison. His scholarly work includes dozens of works in major journals—English Journal, ...
After the Saucers Landed
Douglas LainPart Jonathan Lethem (Amnesia Moon) and part Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse Five), Douglas Lain's latest novel uses science fiction's alien invasion rubric to examine and undermine the world we take for granted.
Superfiction: or, The American story transformed : an anthology
Joe David BellamyShort stories by such writers as Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Joyce Carol Oates, John Gardner, and John Updike reveal experiments with myth and parable and other trends in American fiction during the past decade
Looking through a Glass Bible: Postdisciplinary Biblical ...
PreviewMaking and UnMaking the World in the Book of JoB: reading Job With help froM elaine Scarry, kUrt VonnegUt, and don lafontaine abigail pelham Introduction: Rereading Job the Book of Job, with its unanswered questions, its textual ...
Five Fantastic Stories
Algis BudrysCollected her are five fantastic stories by Algis Budrys, Frank Herbert, Robert Sheckley, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and Jamie Wild.
Palm Sunday
Kurt Vonnegut... Hedrick Smith, W. D. Snodgrass, C. P. Snow, Barbara Probst Soloman, Susan Sontag, Terry Southern, Wole Soyinka, Stephen Spender, Benjamin Spock, Jean Stafford, Gloria Steinem, Shane Stevens, I. F. Stone, Irving Stone, Robert Stone, ...
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