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Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy Ser.: Kurt Vonnegut : Images and Representations by Peter Reed and Marc Leeds (2000, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-100313309752
ISBN-139780313309755
eBay Product ID (ePID)398000
Product Key Features
Number of Pages216 Pages
Publication NameKurt Vonnegut : Images and Representations
LanguageEnglish
SubjectScience Fiction & Fantasy, General
Publication Year2000
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
AuthorPeter Reed, Marc Leeds
SeriesContributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight17.1 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN99-016096
Reviews"...a valuable addition to Vonnegut scholarship...its parts hold fascinating ideas and insight into the character of Vonnegut." Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas, "...useful surveys of Vonnegut's work and would be excellent introductions for teaching Vonnegut to undergraduates."- Science Fiction Studies, "...useful surveys of Vonnegut's work and would be excellent introductions for teaching Vonnegut to undergraduates." Science Fiction Studies, "...a valuable addition to Vonnegut scholarship...its parts hold fascinating ideas and insight into the character of Vonnegut."- Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas
Dewey Edition21
Series Volume NumberNo. 83
Number of Volumes1 vol.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal813/.54
Table Of ContentIntroduction The Divine Stupidity of Kurt Vonnegut by Leslie A. Fielder Hurting 'til It Laughs by Peter J. Reed It's All Play-Acting by Michelle Persell The Paradox of Awareness and Language in Vonnegut's Fiction by Loree Rackstraw Kurt Vonnegut's Bitter Fool: Kilgore Trout by Peter J. Reed Mother Night: Who's Pretending by Marc Leeds Mother Night: Fiction into Film by Jerome Klinkowitw Vonnegut on Film by Jerry Holt The Morning after Mother Night by Robert B. Weide The Boys of Mother Night by Nancy Kaptianoff Pilgrim's Process by Eric Simenson In Search of Slaughterhouse-Five by Julie A. Hibbard Unstuck in Time: Simultaneity as a Foundation for Vonnegut's Chrono-Synclastic Infundiula and Other Nonlinear Time Structures by Sharon Sieber The Apotheosis of Philanthropy: Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Donald E. Morse Kurt and Joe: The Artistic Collaboration of Kurt Vonnegut and Joe Petro III by John Dinsmore and Ollie Lyon Graphics by Kurt Vonnegut by Peter J. Reed Index
SynopsisContributors discuss literary images and representations in Vonnegut's writings, and graphic art and representations of his ideas in various media, such as film., Since the publication of his first short stories in the 1950s, Kurt Vonnegut has enjoyed much popular acclaim and has, since the 1970s, gained growing amounts of attention from the scholarly community. In the course of his career, he has become increasingly concerned with visual images. While such imagery occurs in his short fiction and novels, he has also written plays, in which ideas are visually represented on the stage. In recent years, he has devoted more and more of his time and energy to graphic art, producing paintings that are then silk screened. The contributors to this volume look at the visual images created by Vonnegut in his literary art, along with the images and representations of his thought that increasingly are being brought to life in other media. Much of Vonnegut's present significance, his talents as a mythmaker, and his impulse toward visual imagery were anticipated by Leslie Fiedler in The Divine Stupidity of Kurt Vonnegut, published in the September 1970 issue of Esquire. That essay is reprinted here as a prescient introduction to the volume. The essays that follow look at comic elements in Vonnegut's science fiction, the representation of authors in his works, and the translation of his writings into film. The book also examines Vonnegut's graphic art and includes photos of several of his works.
LC Classification NumberPS3572
