Slaughterhouse -Five

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922- )

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VON At millennium’s end: new essays on the work of Kurt Vonnegut/edited by Kevin Alexander Boon; with a foreword by Kurt Vonnegut. Albany: State University of New York Press. C2001

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VON Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five/edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. (Modern Critical Interpretations) Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers. C2001

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VON Klinkowitz,Jerome. Slaughterhouse-Five: Reforming the Novel and the World.

Boston: Twayne Publishers. C1990

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VON Broer, Lawrence R. Sanity Plea : Schizophrenia in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut

Revised Tuscaloosa, AL : University of Alabama Press c1989

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CON The Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography (CDALB)

Broadening Views1968-1988 Detroit, MI: Gale Research c1989

V.6 p. 298-319

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AME American Writers: Collection of Literary Biographies Supplement II Volume 2

New York: Charles Scribner’s and Sons c1981

p.753-783

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CON Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC) Detroit: Gale Research

Vols. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 12, 60, 111

Articles generally available in college libraries or through Interlibrary Loan for $1.

Watts, Philip. Rewriting history: Celine and Kurt Vonnegut. The South Atlantic Quarterly v. 93 (Spring '94) p. 265-78

Part of a special issue on Louis-Ferdinand Céline. The writer discusses Kurt Vonnegut's debt to Céline. He examines Vonnegut's 1975 essay, in which he reflects on his use of Céline, and his 1969 war novel Slaughterhouse-Five, which can be read partly in relation to Céline's 1932 Voyage au bout de la nuit. He argues that Vonnegut's inheritance from Céline is a terminology of spectacle with which to represent and ultimately condemn the horrors of war, and a protagonist who remains uncomprehending when faced with the destruction. He contends that in processing the intertextual links between the two authors it is necessary to consider not only the similarities of style, lexicon, and imagery but also the transmission of ideologies. He concludes that Vonnegut's reception of Céline seems most pronounced when it is furthest from literary concerns.

Matheson, T.J. "This lousy little book": the genesis and development of Slaughterhouse-five as revealed in chapter one.  Studies in the Novel v. 16 (Summer '84) p. 228-40

Parshall, Peter F. Meditations on the philosophy of Tralfamadore: Kurt Vonnegut and George Roy Hill.  Literature/Film Quarterly v. 15 no1 (1987) p. 49-59

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