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Kurt Vonnegut and the American novel : a postmodern iconography /

The novels of Kurt Vonnegut depict a profoundly absurd and distinctly postmodern world. But in this critical study, Robert Tally argues that Vonnegut himself is actually a modernist, who is less interested in indulging in the free play of signifiers than in attempting to construct a model that could...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tally, Robert T., Jr
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Continuum International Pub., 2011.
Colección:Continuum literary studies.
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