A range of academics, novelists, and writers take a multidisciplinary approach, exploring Kurt Vonnegut's life, works, and influence, adeptly reassessing his influential body of work. INDICE: - Introduction: Flabbergasted; T.Davis - PART I: VONNEGUT'S LITERATURE - 'No damn cat, and no damn cradle': The Fundamental Flaws in Fundamentalism According to Vonnegut; P.L.Thomas - Mother Night; P.Tew - The Journey Homein Kurt Vonnegut's World War II Novels; E.Abele - 'God damn it, you've got tobe kind': War and Altruism in the Works of Kurt Vonnegut; R.McCoppin - Resilience, Time and the Ability of Humor to Salvage any Situation: Bagombo Snuff Box; J.Lingel - Apocalypse in the Optative Mood: Galápagos, or, Starting Over; R.Tally - Art, Sentiment, and Vonnegut's Women; S.E.Farrell - God Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut: Tall Tales for the Final Years; M.Hemmingson - PART II: OTHER WRITERS AND VONNEGUT - Vonnegut and Hemmingway; L.Broer - Reassessing Vonnegut andHis Position in the Countercultural Canon; D.Simmons - Vonnegut's Satire and Contemporary British Writers: Jonathan Coe, Will Self; N.Allen - Vonnegut and Contemporary Apocalyptic Fiction; C.Glover
- ISBN: 978-0-230-61627-1
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha Publicación: 18/11/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés