Kurt Vonnegut and the American Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
A study of Kurt Vonnegut's novels, approaching them as literary experiments attempting to comprehend the American experience in the postmodern condition.
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A study of Kurt Vonnegut's novels, approaching them as literary experiments attempting to comprehend the American experience in the postmodern condition.
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Acknowledgements \ Preface \ 1. A Postmodern Iconography \ 2. Misanthropic Humanism: Player Piano and The Sirens of Titan \ 3. Anxiety and the Jargon of Authenticity: Mother Night \ 4. Dialectic of American Enlightenment: Cat's Cradle and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater \ 5. Eternal Returns, or Tralfamadorian Ethics: Slaughterhouse-Five \ 6. Anti-Oedipus of the Heartland: Breakfast of Champions \ 7. Imaginary Communities, or the Ends of the Political: Slapstick and Jailbird \ 8. Abstract Idealism: Deadeye Dick and Bluebeard \ 9. Apocalypse in the Optative Mood: Gal pagos \ 10. Twilight of the Icons: Hocus Pocus and Timequake \Bibliography \ Index
Autoren-Porträt von Jr. Tally, Tally Robertt
Robert T. Tally Jr. is Associate Professor of English at Texas State University, USA, where he teaches American and world literature.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Jr. Tally , Tally Robertt
- 208 Seiten, Maße: 15,6 x 23,3 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: BLOOMSBURY 3PL
- ISBN-10: 1472507002
- ISBN-13: 9781472507006
- Erscheinungsdatum: 11.04.2013
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Englisch
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'Kurt Vonnegut and the American Novel is an exciting re-evaluation of this much overlooked author's work. Tally deftly rereads Vonnegut's novels, situating them in an American tradition of fiction that seeks to make sense of the larger American experience. The book skilfully interweaves a germane selection of literary and critical theory to convincingly argue that Vonnegut should be reassessed as a substantial Modernist rather than Postmodernist writer.' -- David Simmons, Lecturer in American Literature, Film and Television Studies, Northampton University, UK 'Robert Tally's book makes a serious scholarly contribution not only to Vonnegut studies, but to the field of contemporary American literature in general. Arguing persuasively that Vonnegut is a "reluctant postmodernist," a "misanthropic humanist" with modernist longings, Tally situates his readings of Vonnegut's fourteen novels amid recent critical debates about American literature, about postmodernism, and about what it means to be a human being. The book is that rarest of academic works, at once critically well-informed and eminently readable.' -- Susan Farrell, Professor of English, College of Charleston, USA A Melville as well as a Vonegut scholar, Tally (Texas State Univ.) grapples with Vonegut's novels as attempts, albeit failed ones, at writing the 'great American novel.' In Tally's view, this project constitutes partly an attempt to 'grasp the essence of American life at its moment.' Recommended. Upper division undergraduates and above. --L. A. Brewer, Fortis College -- CHOICE Reviews Robert Tally In Kurt Vonnegut and The American Novel: A Postmodern Iconography, argues that Vonnegut's work is "untimely" in that he writes as a modernist stuck "in a postmodern condition." Tally then uses this distinction to drive a wide-ranging discussion of postmodernism and other theories relevant to reading Vonnegut claiming that Vonnegut employs the novel form to construct a postmodern iconography. The result is a
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very readable, highly original, clearly focused monograph. Donald E. Morse, University of Debrecen, author of The Novels of Kurt Vonnegut: Imagine Being an American
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