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Kurt Vonnegut remembered
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ISBN: 9780817392246 0817392246 9780817320119 0817320113 Year: 2019 Publisher: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press,

The Vonnegut effect
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ISBN: 1280593059 9786613622884 1611171148 9781611171143 1611170079 9781611170078 1570035202 Year: 2004 Publisher: Columbia : University of South Carolina Press,

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Considering both Vonnegut's methods and the cultural needs they have served, Klinkowitz explains how those works came to be written and concludes with an assessment of the author's place in American fiction.

Kurt Vonnegut's crusade : or, How a postmodern harlequin preached a new kind of humanism
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ISBN: 0791482138 1423756134 9781423756132 0791466752 9780791466759 9780791482131 9780791482131 Year: 2006 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

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Explores the moral and philosophical underpinnings of Vonnegut's work.

Kurt Vonnegut's America
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ISBN: 1280593067 9786613622891 1611171156 9781611171150 9781570038266 1570038260 9781570039553 1570039550 Year: 2009 Publisher: Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press,

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Following an introduction characterizing Vonnegut as Klinkowitz came to know him over the course of their friendship, this study charts the impact of Vonnegut on American society and of that society on Vonnegut for more than a half-century to illustrate how each informed the other. --from publisher description.

Vonnegut in fact : the public spokesmanship of personal fiction
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ISBN: 1570032378 1570038740 9786613668622 1280691689 161117127X 9781611171273 9781570038747 9781280691683 6613668621 Year: 2012 Publisher: Columbia : University of South Carolina Press,

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Klinkowitz views his subject as a gentle manipulator of popular forms and an extremely personable figure; what might seem radically innovative and even iconoclastic in his fiction becomes comfortably avuncular and familiarly American when followed to its roots in his public spokesmanship.

Sanity plea : schizophrenia in the novels of Kurt Vonnegut
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ISBN: 0817383573 0585249954 9780585249957 0817307524 9780817307523 9780817383572 Year: 1994 Publisher: Tuscaloosa, AL : University of Alabama Press,

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In this revised edition of a volume originally published in 1989, Lawrence Broer extends his comprehensive critique of the body of writing by Kurt Vonnegut. Broer offers a broad psychoanalytic study of Vonnegut's works from Player Piano to Hocus Pocus, taking a decisively new approach to the work of one of America's most important, yet often misinterpreted writers. A compelling and original analysis, Sanity Plea, explores how Vonnegut incorporates his personal experiences into an art that is not defeatist, but rather creatively therapeutic and life-

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