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Title
Carnivalesque inversion in the fiction of Kurt Vonnegut
Type
Text
Monograph
Subject
Vonnegut, Kurt--Criticism and interpretation. (LCSH)
Vonnegut, Kurt Player piano
Vonnegut, Kurt Cat's cradle
Vonnegut, Kurt Slaughterhouse-five
Technology in literature (LCSH)
Religion in literature (LCSH)
War in literature (LCSH)
Bakhtin, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich), 1895-1975--Philosophy. (LCSH)
Language
English
Classification
LCC: PS3572.O5 Z84 2023 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
DDC: 813/.54 full (Assigner: dlc)(Source: 23/eng/20220613)
Supplementary Content
bibliography
index
Content
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Summary
"In the politically fluid landscape of modern America, Kurt Vonnegut offers his readers a mirror of cultural self-reflection. Through his personal experiences, he encourages his readers to acknowledge their perceptions of society and ideology as illusionary, allowing them the freedom to recreate a better world. Vonnegut's novels are as relevant today as they were in post-war America, a call for people to allow America to become a beacon of humanity, the role it was always meant to fulfill. This book focuses on Kurt Vonnegut's novels Player Piano (1952), Cat's Cradle (1963), and Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), exploring the themes of Technology, Religion, and War through the literary theories of Mikhail Bakhtin. It concentrates on Bakhtin's carnivalesque inversion from Rabelais and his World (1965) and his theoretical perspectives on the text as a site of struggle from The Dialogic Imagination (1975)"-- Provided by publisher.
Table Of Contents
Technology: Player Piano
Religion: Cat's Cradle
War: Slaughterhouse-Five
Extrapolation.
Authorized Access Point
Saggers, Emma, 1978- Carnivalesque inversion in the fiction of Kurt Vonnegut