Kurt Vonnegut and the American Novel A Postmodern Iconography [Hardcover]

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

Robert T. Tally Jr. is Associate Professor of English at Texas State University, USA, where he teaches American and world literature.Kurt Vonnegut and the American Noveldoes much to reposition Vonnegut as a major American writer. By approaching Vonneguts oeuvre as an integrated postmodern iconography, a strategic project bridging the gap between modernism and postmodernism, Tally reveals Vonnegut to be a serious, deeply imaginative writer whose fictions intervene in major intellectual debatespolitical and theoreticalthat continue to impact contemporary social developments. Boundary 2: An International Journal of Literature and Culture