Kurt Vonnegut

 

Books about Kurt Vonnegut

Allen, William Rodney. Understanding Kurt Vonnegut (Understanding Contemporary American Literature). Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1991.

Allen, William Rodney (editor) Conversations With Kurt Vonnegut (Literary Conversations Series). Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1988.

Boon, Kevin A. Chaos Theory and the Interpretation of Literary Texts: The Case of Kurt Vonnegut (Studies in American Literature, Vol 27), Edwin Mellen Press, 1997.

Broer, Lawrence R.(editor). Sanity Plea: Schizophrenia in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut (revised edition). Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1994.

Clareson, Thomas D.(editor).Voices for the Future: Essays on Major Science Fiction Writers, Volume 1. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1976.

Davis, Todd F. Comforting Lies: Postmodern Morality in the Works of Kurt Vonnegut. Ph.D. dissertation. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois Univeristy, 1995.

Dillard, R. H. W., George Garrett, and John Rees Moore (editors) The Sounder Few: Essays from the "Hollins Critic" Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1971.

Giannone, Richard. Vonnegut: A Preface to His Novels, Port Washington, NY: Kennikat, 1977.

Goldsmith, David H. Kurt Vonnegut: Fantasist of Fire and Ice. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1972.

Harris, Charles B. Contemporary American Novelists of the Absurd. New Haven, CT: College and University Press, 1971.

Harrison, Gilbert A.(editor). The Critic as Artist: Essays on Books 1920-1970. New York: Liveright, 1972.

Hassan, Ihab Contemporary American Literature 1942-1972. New York: Ungar Publishing Company, 1973, 1981.

Hipkiss, Robert A. The American Absurd: Pynchon, Vonnegut, and Barth. Port Washington, NY: National University Publications/Associated Faculty Press, 1984.

Hudgens, Betty Lenhardt. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: A Checklist, Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1972.

Karl, Frederick R. American Fictions, 1940-1980: A Comprehensive History and Critical Evaluation. New York: Harper & Row, 1983.

Kazin, Alfred. Bright Book of Life.- American Novelists and Storytellers from Hemingway to Mailer. Boston: Little, Brown, 1973.

Kennard, Jean E. Number and Nightmare: Forms of fantasy in Contemporary Fiction. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1975.

Klinkowitz, Jerome. Vonnegut in Fact: The Public Spokesmanship of Personal Fiction. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1998.

Klinkowitz, Jerome. Slaughterhouse-Five: Reforming the Novel and the World. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1990.

Klinkowitz, Jerome. Literary Subversions: New American Fiction and the Practice of Criticism (Crosscurrents/Modern Critiques. Third Series). Carbonville, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1985.

Klinkowitz, Jerome. Kurt Vonnegut. London, NY: Methuen, 1982.

Klinkowitz, Jerome. The American 1960s: Imaginative Acts in a Decade of Change. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1980.

Klinkowitz, Jerome. Literary Disruptions: The Making of a Post-Contemporary American Fiction. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1975, 1980.

Klinkowitz, Jerome; Lawler, Donald L.(editors) Vonnegut in America: An Introduction to the Life and Work of Kurt Vonnegut, Delacorte, 1977.

Klinkowitz, Jerome, et al (editors). Kurt Vonnegut: A Comprehensive Bibliography. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1987.

Klinkowitz, Jerome; Somer, John (editors) The Vonnegut Statement: Original Essays on the Life and Work of Kurt Vonnegut. New York: Delacorte, 1973.

Krementz, Jill (editor) Happy Birthday, Kurt Vonnegut: A Festschrift for Kurt Vonnegut on His Sixtieth Birthday. New York: Delacorte, 1982.

LeClair, Thomas Edmund. "Final Words: Death and Comedy in the Fiction of Donleavy, Hawkes, Barth, Vonnegut, and Percy." Ph.D. dissertation. Durham, NC: Duke University, 1972.

Leeds, Marc. The Vonnegut Encyclopedia: An Authorized Compendium.Foreward by Kurt Vonnegut. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995.

Loeb, Monica. Vonnegut's Duty-Dance with Death: Theme and Structure in Slaughterhouse-Five. Umeå: Umeå Univ.-Bibl., 1979.

Lundquist, James. Kurt Vonnegut. New York: Ungar, 1977.

Mayo, Clark. Kurt Vonnegut: The Gospel from Outer Space, or Yes, We Have No Nirvanas. San Bernardino, CA: Borgo Press, 1973

Merrill, Robert (editor). Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut (Critical Essays on American Literature). Boston: G K Hall, 1990.

Morse, Donald E. Kurt Vonnegut. San Bernardino, CA: Borgo Press, 1992

Mustazza, Leonard (editor). The Critical Response to Kurt Vonnegut (Critical Responses in Arts and Letters, No. 14). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994.

Mustazza, Leonard. Forever Pursuing Genesis: The Myth of Eden in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1991.

Olderman, Raymond M. Beyond the Wasteland: A Study of the American Novel in the 1960s. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1973.

Pettersson, Bo. The World According to Kurt Vonnegut: Moral Paradox and Narrative Form. Åbo, Finland : Åbo Akademi University Press, 1994.

Platt, Charles. Dream Makers: The Uncommon People Who Write Science Fiction. New York: Berkley Books, 1980.

Plimpton, George (editor) Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, sixth series. New York: Viking, 1986.

Pieratt, Asa B.; Huffman-Klinkowitz , Julie; Klinkowitz, Jerome. Kurt Vonnegut: A Comprehensive Bibliography. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1987.

Reed, Peter J. The Short Fiction of Kurt Vonnegut (Contributions to the Study of American Literature, No 1). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997.

Reed, Peter J. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Warner Books, 1972.

Reed, Peter J.; Leeds, Marc (editors). The Vonnegut Chronicles: Interviews and Essays (Contributions to the Study of World Literature, No 65). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996.

Schatt, Stanley. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Boston: Twayne, 1976.

Short, Robert. Something to Believe In: Is Kurt Vonnegut Exorcist of Jesus Christ Superstar? San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1976.

Singh, Sukhbir. The Survivor in Contemporary American Fiction: Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Delhi: B.R. Publishing, 1991

Tanner, Tony. City of Words: American Fiction 1950-1970. New York: Harper & Row, 1971

Tilton, John Wightman. Cosmic Satire in the Contemporary Novel. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1977.

Wollheim, Donald A. The Universe Makers: Science Fiction Today. New York: Harper & Row, 1971.

 

 

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