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Kurt Vonnegut's Crusade; or, How a Postmodern Harlequin Preached a New Kind of Humanism
Language: en
Pages: 178
Authors: Todd F. Davis
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-02-01 - Publisher: State University of New York Press

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"I've worried some about why write books when presidents and senators and generals do not read them, and the university experience taught me a very good reason:
New Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut
Language: en
Pages: 239
Authors: D. Simmons
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-12-04 - Publisher: Springer

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Kurt Vonnegut's darkly comic work became a symbol for the counterculture of a generation. From his debut novel, Player Piano (1951) through seminal 1960's novel
Postmodern Humanism in Contemporary Literature and Culture
Language: en
Pages: 219
Authors: T. Davis
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-01-23 - Publisher: Springer

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Davis and Womack investigate the emerging gaps between literary scholarship and the reading experience. The idea of reconciling the void - the locus of our soci
Kurt Vonnegut and the American Novel
Language: en
Pages: 209
Authors: Robert T. Tally Jr.
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-08-11 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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The novels of Kurt Vonnegut depict a profoundly absurd and distinctly postmodern world. But in this critical study, Robert Tally argues that Vonnegut himself is
Apocalyptic Transformation
Language: en
Pages: 239
Authors: Elizabeth K. Rosen
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-02-15 - Publisher: Lexington Books

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Apocalyptic Transformation explores how one the oldest sense-making paradigms, the apocalyptic myth, is altered when postmodern authors and filmmakers adopt it.