A (mis)reading of Kurt Vonnegut / Said Mentak.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Mentak, Said.

Series:

• Focus on civilizations and cultures.
• Focus on civilizations and cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Vonnegut, Kurt--Criticism and interpretation.
• Realism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When the fictional is fused with the real, the theoretical with the practical, and the line demarcating these spheres of knowledge is blurred there should be a new understanding of the function of literature in post-modern times. The book provides an essential practice of understanding postmodernism fiction by minutely tackling the work of one of the most widely read among the few grandmasters of American letters, Kurt Vonnegut, whose masterpieces, Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five, and Breakfast of Champions, are dealt with in a postmodernist vein. The work raises questions as to the validity of traditional interpretation of a writer who has added the fantastic to the amazing fusion of reality and fiction without losing the Vonnegut touch.

Contents:

• The discursive formations of postmodern subjectivity
• The subject and the social or historical reality
• The subject and/or language
• Subjectivity in Kurt Vonnegut's narrative discourses
• Cat's cradle : what's new in the wor(l)d game
• Slaughterhouse-five: what is really going on?
• Breakfast of Champions and wampeters, foma and granfalloons: in what sense is life fiction?.

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1-61728-087-9