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Kurt Vonnegut Images and Representations
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Marc Leeds, Peter J. Reed
Foreword by Kurt Vonnegut
Book Code: GM0975
ISBN: 0-313-30975-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30975-5
216 pages, photos, bibliography
Greenwood Press
Publication: 5/30/2000
List Price: $105.00 (UK Sterling Price: £59.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Related Web Pages: 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     2002
  • ...useful surveys of Vonnegut's work and would be excellent introductions for teaching Vonnegut to undergraduates.
    —Science Fiction Studies
Description: 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.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 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
LC Card Number: 99-16096
LCC Class: PS3572
Dewey Class: 813
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