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Kurt Vonnegut : images and representations / edited by Marc Leeds and Peter J. Reed ; foreword by Kurt Vonnegut.
Van Pelt Library PS3572.O5 Z754 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy 0193-6875 ; no. 83.
- Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, 0193-6875 ; no. 83
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vonnegut, Kurt--Criticism and interpretation.
- Vonnegut, Kurt.
- Science fiction, American--History and criticism.
- Science fiction, American.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 198 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- Contributors discuss literary images and representations in Vonnegut's writings, and graphic art and representations of his ideas in various media, such as film.
- Contents:
- The Divine Stupidity of Kurt Vonnegut: Portrait of the Novelist as Bridge over Troubled Water / Leslie A. Fiedler 5
- Hurting 'Til It Laughs: The Painful-Comic Science Fiction Stories of Kurt Vonnegut / Peter J. Reed 19
- It's All Play-Acting: Authorship and Identity in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut / Michelle Persell 39
- The Paradox of "Awareness" and Language in Vonnegut's Fiction / Loree Rackstraw 51
- Kurt Vonnegut's Bitter Fool: Kilgore Trout / Peter J. Reed 67
- Mother Night: Who's Pretending? / Marc Leeds 81
- Mother Night: Fiction into Film / Jerome Klinkowitz 93
- Vonnegut on Film / Jerry Holt 101
- The Morning after Mother Night / Robert B. Weide 107
- The Boys of Mother Night / Nancy Kapitanoff 115
- Pilgrim's Process / Eric Simenson 131
- In Search of Slaughterhouse-Five / Julie A. Hibbard 135
- Unstuck in Time: Simultaneity as a Foundation for Vonnegut's Chrono-Synclastic Infundibula and other Nonlinear Time Structures / Sharon Sieber 147
- The Apotheosis of Philanthropy: Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater / Donald E. Morse 155
- Kurt and Joe: The Artistic Collaboration of Kurt Vonnegut and Joe Petro III / John Dinsmore, Ollie Lyon 165
- More Graphics by Kurt Vonnegut / Peter J. Reed 171.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-183) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0313309752
- OCLC:
- 41431610
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