Beschreibung:
Robert T. Tally Jr. is Associate Professor of English at Texas State University, USA, where he teaches American and world literature.
A study of Kurt Vonnegut's novels, approaching them as literary experiments attempting to comprehend the American experience in the postmodern condition.
A study of Kurt Vonnegut's novels, approaching them as literary experiments attempting to comprehend the American experience in the postmodern condition.
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: Gal pagos 10. Twilight of the Icons: Hocus Pocus and Timequake Bibliography Index