• Publication: Critical Essays on Kurt VonnegutPublication Record # 945592
• Author: Robert Merrill
• Date: 1990-00-00
• ISBN: 0-8161-8893-9 [978-0-8161-8893-2]
• Publisher: G. K. Hall & Co.
• Pages: x+235
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NONFICTION
• Webpages: archive.org
• External IDs:
  • LCCN: 89-11130
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 19778072
  • Reginald-3: 29766

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 1 • Introduction (Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut) • essay by Robert Merrill
• 29 • New Terms and Goons • (1952) • essay by Rog Phillips [as by Charles Lee]
• 29 •   Review: Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. • (1952) • review by Rog Phillips [as by Charles Lee]
• 30 • After the Bomb, Dad Came Up with Ice • essay by Terry Southern
• 30 •   Review: Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. • review by Terry Southern
• 31 • Kurt Vonnegut on Target • essay by C. D. B. Bryan
• 37 • [History as Fabulation]: Slaughterhouse-Five • essay by Robert Scholes
• 37 •   Review: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. • review by Robert Scholes
• 39 • Nothing Sacred • essay by Peter S. Prescott
• 39 •   Review: Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. • review by Peter S. Prescott
• 40 • All's Well in Skyscraper National Park • essay by John Updike
• 40 •   Review: Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. • review by John Updike
• 47 • Vonnegut the Diviner and Other Auguries • essay by Loree Rackstraw
• 47 •   Review: Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. • review by Loree Rackstraw
• 53 • The Vonnegut Cosmos • essay by Loree Rackstraw
• 53 •   Review: Deadeye Dick by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. • review by Loree Rackstraw
• 62 • God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, for Kurt Vonnegut's Latest • essay by Peter J. Reed
• 62 •   Review: Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. • review by Peter J. Reed
• 64 • Poking Holes in the Social Fabric • essay by Paul Skenazy
• 64 •   Review: Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. • review by Paul Skenazy
• 67 • Why They Read Vonnegut • (1973) • essay by Jerome Klinkowitz
• 74 • [Kurt Vonnegut and Black Humor] • essay by Robert Scholes
• 82 • Mother Night, Cat's Cradle, and the Crimes of Our Time • (1973) • essay by Jerome Klinkowitz
• 94 • Tangled Up in You: A Playful Reading of Cat's Cradle • essay by John L. Simons
• 108 • [Economic Neurosis: Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater] • essay by Peter J. Reed
• 125 • [The Uncertain Messenger: A Reading of Slaughterhouse-Five] • essay by Tony Tanner
• 131 • Illusion and Absurdity: The Novels of Kurt Vonnegut • essay by Charles B. Harris
• 142 • Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five: The Requirements of Chaos • essay by Robert Merrill and Peter A. Scholl
• 153 • Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions: The Conversion of Heliogabalus • essay by Robert Merrill
• 162 • Vonnegut's Comic Persona in Breakfast of Champions • essay by Charles Berryman
• 170 • Culture and Anarchy: Vonnegut's Later Career • essay by David Cowart
• 188 • Vonnegut and Evolution: Galápagos • essay by Charles Berryman
• 201 • Kurt Vonnegut and the Myths and Symbols of Meaning • essay by Kathryn Hume
• 216 • The Heraclitean Cosmos of Kurt Vonnegut • essay by Kathryn Hume