Contributor
Merrill, Robert, 1944-
Imprint:Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, c1990.
Descriptionx, 235 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:REVIEWS: New terms and goons [review of Player Piano] / Charles Lee. - After the bomb, Dad came up with ice [review of Cat's Cradle] / Terry Southern. - Kurt Vonnegut on target / C.D.B. Bryan. - [History as faculation:] Slaughterhouse-Five / Robert Scholes. - Nothing sacred [review of Breakfast of Champions] / Peter S. Prescott. - All's well in skyscraper national park [reviwe of Slapstick] / John Updike. - Vonnegut the diviner and other auguries [review of Jailbird] / Loree Rackstraw. - The Vonnegut cosmos [review of Deadeye Dick] / Loree Rackstraw. - God bless you, Mr. Darwin, for Kurt Vonengut's latest [review of Galápagos] / Peter J. Reed. - Poking holes in the social fabric [review of Bluebeard] / Paul Skenazy. -THE EARLY WORKS: Why they read Vonnegut / Jerome Klinkowitz. - [Kurt Vonnegut and black humor] / Robert Scholes. - Mother Night, Cat's Cradle, and the crimes of our time / Jerome Klinkowitz. - Tangled up n you: a playful reading of Cat's Cradle / John L. Smons. - [Economic neurosis: Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater] / Peter J. Reed. -SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE: [The uncertain messenger: a reading of Slaughterhouse-Five] / Tony Tanner. - Illusion and absurdity: the novels of Kurt Vonnegut / Charles B. Harris. - Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five: the requirements of chaos / Robert Merrill and Peter A. Scholl. - THE LATER WORKS: Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions: the conversion of heliogabalus / Robert Merrill. - Vonnegut's comic persona in Breakfast of Champions / Charles Berryman. - Culture and anarchy: Vonnegut's later career / David Cowart. - Vonnegut and evolution: Galápagos / Charles Berryman. -GENERAL STUDIES: Kurt Vonnegut and the myths and symbols of meaning / Kathryn Hume. - The heraclitean cosmos of Kurt Vonnegut / Kathryn Hume.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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