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The Vonnegut Effect.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (233 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781611171143
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Vonnegut EffectDDC classification:
  • 813/.54
LOC classification:
  • PS3572.O5 Z746 2004
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Key to Abbreviations -- Introduction: Vonnegut in America -- Chapter One: Coming to Terms with Theme: Early Stories and Player Piano -- Chapter Two: Coming to Terms with Technique: The Sirens of Titan, Mother Night, Cat's Cradle, and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater -- Chapter Three: Speaking Personally: Slaughterhouse-Five and the Essays -- Chapter Four: Speaking Famously: Happy Birthday, Wanda June -- Chapter Five: Speaking Cosmically: Galápagos, Bluebeard, and Hocus Pocus -- Chapter Six: The Autobiography of a Novel: Timequake -- Conclusion Vonnegut in Fiction -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Considering both Vonnegut's methods and the cultural needs they have served, Klinkowitz explains how those works came to be written and concludes with an assessment of the author's place in American fiction.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Key to Abbreviations -- Introduction: Vonnegut in America -- Chapter One: Coming to Terms with Theme: Early Stories and Player Piano -- Chapter Two: Coming to Terms with Technique: The Sirens of Titan, Mother Night, Cat's Cradle, and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater -- Chapter Three: Speaking Personally: Slaughterhouse-Five and the Essays -- Chapter Four: Speaking Famously: Happy Birthday, Wanda June -- Chapter Five: Speaking Cosmically: Galápagos, Bluebeard, and Hocus Pocus -- Chapter Six: The Autobiography of a Novel: Timequake -- Conclusion Vonnegut in Fiction -- Bibliography -- Index.

Considering both Vonnegut's methods and the cultural needs they have served, Klinkowitz explains how those works came to be written and concludes with an assessment of the author's place in American fiction.

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