Critical Response to Kurt Vonnegut

LEONARD MUSTAZZA is Director of Academic Affairs and Professor of English and American Studies at the Ogontz Campus of Pennsylvania State University. He has authored numerous scholarly articles and two books.

• Series ForewordPrefaceIntroductionThe Road to Critical Success, 1952-1969A Review of Player Piano by Paul PickrelThe Theme of Mechanization in Player Piano by Thomas P. HoffmanIt's All a Joke: Science Fiction in Kurt Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan by Ellen Cronan RoseScience and Parody in Kurt Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan by Joseph SigmanA Review of Mother Night by William James SmithVonnegut's Responsibility (A Review of Mother Night) by Doris LessingThat Way Lies Madness: Mother Night by Stanley SchattAfter the Bomb, Dad Came Up with Ice (A Review of Cat's Cradle) by Terry SouthernAfterthought (A Review of Cat's Cradle) by Alan BrienRescuing Science from Technocracy: Cat's Cradle and the Play of Apocalypse by Daniel L. ZinsMother Night, Cat's Cradle and the Crimes of Our Time by Jerome KlinkowitzThanks for the Sunset (A Review of God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater) by Granville Hicks(God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater) from Kurt Vonnegut: Fantasist of Fire and Ice by David H. GoldsmithVonnegut and Shakespeare: Rosewater at Elsinore by William L. GodshalkSci-Fi and Vonnegut (A Review of Slaughterhouse-Five) by J. Michael CrichtonThe Arbitrary Cycle of Slaughterhouse-Five: A Relation of Form to Theme by Wayne D. McGinnisVonnegut's Humor and the Limits of Hope by John R. MayThe Critical Mainstream, 1970-1993The Ideas of an Anti-Intellectual (A Review of Breakfast of Champions and The Vonnegut Statement) by Charles NicolVonnegut's Breakfast of Champions: The Conversion of Heliogabalus by Robert MerrillVonnegut's World of Comic Futility by Lynn BuckExpected Meaning in Vonnegut's Dead-End Fiction by Robert W. UphausBringing Chaos to Order: The Novel Tradition and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. by Mary Sue SchriberA Review of Slapstick by Jerome KlinkowitzParadise Re-Lost (A Review of Slapstick) by Loree RackstrawThe Definition of Love: Kurt Vonnegut's Slapstick by Russell BlackfordVonnegut's Softer Focus (A Review of Jailbird) by Michael WoodKurt Vonnegut and His Critics: The Aesthetics of Accessiblity by John Irving(Jailbird) from Kurt Vonnegut by Jerome KlinkowitzVonnegut's Self-Projections: Symbolic Characters and Symbolic Fiction by Kathryn HumeA Riot of Randomness (A Review of Deadeye Dick) by Benjamin DeMottVaporizing Midland City (A Review of Deadeye Dick) by Gary GiddinsDeadeye Dick: The Resolution of Vonnegut's Creative Schizophrenia by Lawrence R. BroerHow Humans Got Flippers and Beaks (A Review of Galapagos) by Lorrie MooreThe Theory of Evolution, According to Vonnegut (A Review of Galapagos) by David BianculliA Darwinian Eden: Science and Myth in Kurt Vonnegut's Galapagos by Leonard MustazzaVonnegut: New Twists to Old Tricks (A Review of Bluebeard) by James LundquistThe Genesis Gang: Art and Re-Creation in Bluebeard) by Leonard MustazzaBlack Magic (A Review of Hocus Pocus) by John LeonardStill Asking the Embarrassing Questions (A Review of Hocus Pocus) by Jay McInerneyHistory and Fabrication in Kurt Vonnegut's Hocus Pocus by Bill MistichelliSelected BibliographyIndex