Sanity plea : schizophrenia in the novels of Kurt Vonnegut / Lawrence R. Broer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Broer, Lawrence R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental illness in literature.

Schizophrenia in literature.

Vonnegut, Kurt--Knowledge--Psychology.

Vonnegut, Kurt.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 p.)

Edition:

Rev. ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, AL : University of Alabama Press, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this revised edition of a volume originally published in 1989, Lawrence Broer extends his comprehensive critique of the body of writing by Kurt Vonnegut. Broer offers a broad psychoanalytic study of Vonnegut's works from Player Piano to Hocus Pocus, taking a decisively new approach to the work of one of America's most important, yet often misinterpreted writers. A compelling and original analysis, Sanity Plea, explores how Vonnegut incorporates his personal experiences into an art that is not defeatist, but rather creatively therapeutic and life-

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Madness in a Modern Mode; Part I: The Struggle; 1. Player Piano: A Looney Tune for the Masses; 2. Sirens of Titan: Though This Be Madness, Yet There Is Method in It; 3. Mother Night: Nations of Lunatics; 4. Cat's Cradle: Jonah and the Whale; 5. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater: The Saga of Vonnegut's Sanest Lunatic; 6. Slaughterhouse-Five: Pilgrim's Progress; 7. Breakfast of Champions: Spiritual Crossroads; Part II: Resolution: The Second Fifty Years; 8. Slapstick: The Meaning of the Dizygotic Twins; 9. Jailbird: The Madness of RAMJAC

10. Deadeye Dick: The Resolution of Vonnegut's Creative Schizophrenia11. Galápagos: Oedipus at Galápagos; 12. Bluebeard: Redemption and the Unwavering Light; 13. Hartke's Hearing: Vonnegut's Heroes on Trial; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-229) and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8357-3

0-585-24995-4

OCLC:

648711525