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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tally, Robert T., Jr
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Continuum International Pub., 2011.
Colección:Continuum literary studies.
Temas:
Vonnegut, Kurt > Criticism and interpretation.
Vonnegut, Kurt
Literary studies: from c 1900.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter 1. A Postmodern Iconography
  • Chapter 2. Misanthropic Humanism: Player Piano and The Sirens of Titan
  • Chapter 3. Anxiety and the Jargon of Authenticity: Mother Night
  • Chapter 4. The Dialectic of American Enlightenment: Cat's Cradle and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
  • Chapter 5. Eternal Returns, or, Tralfamadorian Ethics: Slaughterhouse-Five
  • Chapter 6. Anti-Oedipus of the Heartland: Breakfast of Champions
  • Chapter 7. Imaginary Communities, or, the Ends of the Political: Slapstick and Jailbird
  • Chapter 8. Abstract Idealism: Deadeye Dick and Bluebeard
  • Chapter 9. Apocalypse in the Optative Mood: Galápagos
  • Chapter 10. Twilight of the Icons: Hocus Pocus and Timequake.

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