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Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut

Drawing on his experiences as a young man in the Great Depression and the Second World War Kurt Vonnegut created a new style of fiction responsive to the post-war world and unique in its appeal to both popular audiences and avant-garde critics. His work was profoundly innovative and yet perfectly lucid. In this comprehensive introductory study originally published in 1982 Jerome Klinkowitz traces Vonnegut’s influences within the American middle class his early efforts as a short-story writer for magazines in the 1960s and his startling and unprecedented success as a bestselling experimental novelist with Slaughterhouse-Five. His self-consciously moral posture led to readers throughout the world accepting him as their spokesman for humane values a role which Klinkowitz considers within the context of his work.

GBP 29.99
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Posthumanism in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut Matter That Complains So

Posthumanism in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut Matter That Complains So

Posthumanism in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut: Matter That Complains So re-examines the prevailing critical consensus that Kurt Vonnegut was a humanist writer. While more difficult elements of his work have often been the subject of scholarly attention the tendency amongst critics writing on Vonnegut is to disavow them or to subsume them within a liberal humanist framework. When Vonnegut’s work is read from a posthumanist perspective however the productive paradoxes of his work are more fully realised. Drawing on New Materialist Eco-Critical and Systems Theory methodologies this book highlights posthumanist themes in six of Vonnegut’s most famous novels and emphasises the ways in which Vonnegut troubles human/non-human natural/artificial and material/discursive hierarchical binaries | Posthumanism in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut Matter That Complains So

GBP 38.99
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