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Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle

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A critical overview of the work features the writings of Terry Southern, William S. Doxey, Jerome Klinkowitz, Richard Giannone, John L. Simons, James Lundquist, and other scholars.

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- After the bomb, Dad came up with ice / Terry Southern

- Vonnegut's Cat's cradle / William S. Doxey

- The private person as public figure / Jerome Klinkowitz

- Cat's cradle / Richard Giannone

- Tangled up in you : a playful reading of Cat's cradle / John L. Simons

- From formula toward experiment : Cat's cradle and God bless you, Mr. Rosewater / Jerome Klinkowitz

- Playful genesis and dark revelation in Cat's cradle / Leonard Mustazza

- Bokononism as a structure of ironies / Zoltan Ab di-Nagy

- Mother night, Cat's cradle, and The crimes of our time / Jerome Klinkowitz

- Vonnegut's invented religions as sense-making systems / Peter Freese

- Icy solitude : magic and violence in Macondo and San Lorenzo / Wendy B. Faris

- Vonnegut's cosmos / David H. Goldsmith

- Cosmic irony / James Lundquist

- Cat's cradle : Jonah and the whale / Lawrence R. Broer

- Hurting 'til it laughs : the painful-comic science fiction stories of Kurt Vonnegut / Peter J. Reed

- The paradox of "awareness" and language in Vonnegut's fiction / Loree Rackstraw.

Setting
2000s
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 258 pages
Form
novella

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