Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut

Contents......Page 6
About This Volume -
Leonard Mustazza......Page 8
THE BOOK AND
AUTHOR......Page 12
On Slaughterhouse-Five -
Leonard Mustazza......Page 14
Biography of Kurt Vonnegut -
Peter J. Reed......Page 19
The Paris Review Perspective -
Sarah Fay for The Paris Review......Page 25
CRITICAL
CONTEXTS......Page 30
The Critical Reception of Slaughterhouse-Five -
Jerome Klinkowitz......Page 32
Temporal Cohesion and Disorientation in Slaughterhouse-Five: A Chronicle of Form Cuts and Transitional Devices in the Novel -
Kevin Alexander Boon......Page 47
“The War Parts, Anyway, Are Pretty Much True”: Negotiating the Reality of World War II in Slaughterhouse-Five and Catch-22 -
David Simmons......Page 75
The Vietnamization of World War II in Slaughterhouse-Five and Gravity’s Rainbow -
Christina Jarvis......Page 91
CRITICAL
READINGS......Page 120
Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five and the Fiction of Atrocity -
Donald J. Greiner......Page 122
Slaughterhouse-Five: Novel and Film -
Joyce Nelson......Page 136
Slaughterhouse-Five: Time Out of Joint -
Arnold Edelstein......Page 143
The Arbitrary Cycle of Slaughterhouse-Five: A Relation of Form to Theme -
Wayne D. McGinnis......Page 159
The Ironic Christ Figure in Slaughterhouse-Five -
Dolores K. Gros Louis......Page 175
Slaughterhouse-Five: Kurt Vonnegut’s Anti-Memoirs -
Maurice J. O’Sullivan, Jr.......Page 190
The “New Reality” of Slaughterhouse-Five -
James Lundquist......Page 201
Slaughterhouse-Five and the Comforts of Indifference -
C. Barry Chabot......Page 216
“This Lousy Little Book”: The Genesis and Development of Slaughterhouse-Five as Revealed in Chapter One -
T. J. Matheson......Page 226
Adam and Eve in the Golden Depths: Edenic Madness in Slaughterhouse-Five -
Leonard Mustazza......Page 243
Slaughterhouse-Five -
William Rodney Allen......Page 263
Vonnegut as Messenger: Slaughterhouse-Five -
Donald E. Morse......Page 279
Slaughterhouse-Five: Existentialist Themes Elaborated in a Postmodernist Way -
Hans van Stralen......Page 290
Diagnosing Billy Pilgrim: A Psychiatric Approach to Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five -
Susanne Vees-Gulani......Page 303
Speaking Personally: Slaughterhouse-Five and the Essays -
Jerome Klinkowitz......Page 317
RESOURCES......Page 346
Chronology of Kurt Vonnegut’s Life......Page 348
Works by Kurt Vonnegut......Page 352
Bibliography......Page 354
About The Paris Review......Page 358
Contributors......Page 360
Acknowledgments......Page 363
Index......Page 365