Kurt Vonnegut and the American Novel - A Postmodern Iconography

A study of Kurt Vonnegut's novels, approaching them as literary experiments attempting to comprehend the American experience in the postmodern condition.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements \ Preface \ 1. A Postmodern Iconography \ 2. Misanthropic Humanism: Player Piano and The Sirens of Titan \ 3. Anxiety and the Jargon of Authenticity: Mother Night \ 4. Dialectic of American Enlightenment: Cat's Cradle and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater \ 5. Eternal Returns, or Tralfamadorian Ethics: Slaughterhouse-Five \ 6. Anti-Oedipus of the Heartland: Breakfast of Champions \ 7. Imaginary Communities, or the Ends of the Political: Slapstick and Jailbird \ 8. Abstract Idealism: Deadeye Dick and Bluebeard \ 9. Apocalypse in the Optative Mood: Galápagos \ 10. Twilight of the Icons: Hocus Pocus and Timequake Bibliography \ Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Robert T. Tally Jr.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jr Tally, Jr. Tally, Robert T Tally, Robert T. Tally, Robert T. Jr. Tally, Robert T Tally Jr, Robert T. Tally Jr, Robert T. Tally Jr.
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 11.08.2011
• EAN: 9781441164452
• ISBN: 978-1-4411-6445-2
• Seiten: 208
• Serien: Continuum Literary Studies; Continuum Literary Studies
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft