Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's cradle / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Harold.

Series:

Modern critical interpretations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vonnegut, Kurt. Cat's cradle.

Vonnegut, Kurt.

Physical Description:

viii, 258 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Chelsea House, [2002]

Summary:

-- Presents the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature-- The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism-- Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index

Contents:

After the bomb, Dad came up with ice / Terry Southern

Vonnegut's Cat's cradle / William S. Doxey

The private person as public figure / Jerome Klinkowitz

Cat's cradle / Richard Giannone

Tangled up in you : a playful reading of Cat's cradle / John L. Simons

From formula toward experiment : Cat's cradle and God bless you, Mr. Rosewater / Jerome Klinkowitz

Playful genesis and dark revelation in Cat's cradle / Leonard Mustazza

Bokononism as a structure of ironies / Zoltan Ab di-Nagy

Mother night, Cat's cradle, and The crimes of our time / Jerome Klinkowitz

Vonnegut's invented religions as sense-making systems / Peter Freese

Icy solitude : magic and violence in Macondo and San Lorenzo / Wendy B. Faris

Vonnegut's cosmos / David H. Goldsmith

Cosmic irony / James Lundquist

Cat's cradle : Jonah and the whale / Lawrence R. Broer

Hurting 'til it laughs : the painful-comic science fiction stories of Kurt Vonnegut / Peter J. Reed

The paradox of "awareness" and language in Vonnegut's fiction / Loree Rackstraw.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-244) and index.

ISBN:

0791063372

OCLC:

48966515