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Heath, Alexander. "Humanisms in Kurt Vonnegut." Tallahassee, Fla. : Florida State University, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/lib/digcoll/undergraduate/honors-theses/341782.

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Saggers, Emma Louise. "Carnivalesque inversion : the subversive fiction of Kurt Vonnegut." Thesis, University of Essex, 2016. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/19697/.

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This thesis considers the novels of Kurt Vonnegut, focusing on Cat’s Cradle (1963), Player Piano (1952), and Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), through the literary theories of Mikhail Bakhtin. It concentrates on Bakhtin’s carnivalesque inversion from Rabelais and his World (1965), his theoretical perspectives on the text as a site of struggle from The Dialogic Imagination (1975), and the practical application of his theories with the novel as polyphonic from Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics (1963). The thesis concentrates on three main themes: religion, technology, and war. Chapter One will examine
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Mayerchak, Justin Philip. "Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Confronts the Death of the Author." FIU Digital Commons, 2016. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2440.

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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s literary style transforms from his first novel, "Player’s Piano" (1952), to his final book, "Timequake" (1997). Most of his novels adhere to a similar style – the narrators face a puzzling societal fault that is exaggerated in their dystopian societies, which hides Vonnegut’s humanistic leanings. This thesis, however, focuses on Vonnegut’s authorial identity, his use of the alter ego, and eventual entrance into the novel. His authorial role challenges the literary theory expressed in “The Death of the Author”(1967) by Roland Barthes and further discussed in “What is an Auth
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Teo, Ling Eileen. "Sculpting a human artefact : a study of Kurt Vonnegut." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.270499.

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Robinson, Katie Elizabeth. "Symptomatic of excess apocalypse in the novels of Kurt Vonnegut /." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 2009. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.

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Dye, Scott Allen. "The Concept of Dignity in the Early Science Fiction Novels of Kurt Vonnegut." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2003. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4155/.

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Kurt Vonnegut's early science fiction novels depict societies and characters that, as in the real world, have become callous and downtrodden. These works use supercomputers, aliens, and space travel, often in a comical manner, to demonstrate that the future, unless people change their concepts of humanity, will not be the paradise of advanced technology and human harmony that some may expect. In fact, Vonnegut suggests that the human condition may gradually worsen if people continue to look further and further into the universe for happiness and purpose. To Vonnegut, the key to happiness is di
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Weißhampel, Stefan. "The role of science fiction : Asimov & Vonnegut - a comparison /." Hamburg : Diplomica-Verl, 2007. http://d-nb.info/989566374/04.

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O'Brien, John Philip. "Occasional Writing as Life Writing : Norman Mailer, Grace Paley, Kurt Vonnegut." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.515553.

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Psenicka, Carly. ""An Unwavering Band of Light": Kurt Vonnegut and the Psychedelic Revolution." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1433433145.

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Pettersson, Bo. "The world according to Kurt Vonnegut moral paradox and narrative form /." Åbo [Finland] : Åbo Akademi University Press, 1994. http://books.google.com/books?id=lXlbAAAAMAAJ.

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Leeper, Jill M. "Preacher for the age of absurdity : morality in the novels of Kurt Vonnegut." Virtual Press, 1987. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/482743.

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The purpose of this study was to examine the moral imagination of Kurt Vonnegut and attempt to determine its philosophical basis. This topic was previously only mentioned briefly in the course of other studies, and no one had ever attempted to examine the scope of Vonnegut’s moral vision. This moral vision was examined within the categories of government, technology, violence, economics, and religion. It was concluded that Vonnegut’s vision is based upon the philosophy of humanism: Man is sacred and must be preserved. To this end, Vonnegut advocates a more democratic and selfless form of
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Engström, Alexis. "En osäker framtid : Om hot mot planeten i Kurt Vonneguts författarskap." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Avdelningen för litteratursociologi, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-190876.

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Uppsatsen har som mål att se hur läsningen av Kurt Vonnegut kan kompletteras med ekokritiska perspektiv. Som ämne valdes hot mot planeten och det undersökta materialet var fyra av Vonneguts böcker: Player Piano (1954), Breakfast of Champions (1973), Slapstick (1976) samt A Man without a Country (2005). Böckerna undersöktes utifrån frågorna: Har det tidigare i Vonneguts författarskap förekommit hot mot planeten? Vilka är i sådana fall dessa hot och vilka är aktörerna bakom hoten? samt Hur framställs hoten och hur har hoten och framställningen förändrats från Vonneguts debut till hans avslutande
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Libeg, Nicholas R. "Thus Spoke Billy Pilgrim: Kurt Vonnegut's Nietzschean Thought." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1391773726.

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Sirbu-Ghiram, Dolores Carmencita. "Le jeu des masques dans les romans de John Barth et de Kurt Vonnegut." Angers, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999ANGE0002.

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Le paradoxe des écrivains américains est qu'en établissant une identité pour le personnage, ils lui dessinent un contour qui est une limite à ses possibilités de comportement. Le personnage ne peut sortir de cet enfermement que par la fluidité de ses attitudes, ce qui entraine une perte de son moi réel. Cela se révèle particulièrement vrai chez John Barth et Kurt Vonnegut, dont l'oeuvre est analysée ici à travers deux de leurs romans. La structure décentrée postmoderniste qui les caractérise implique une acceptation de la fragmentation et de la dissolution des frontières du moi et impose aux p
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Ward, Joseph J. "The Accidental Practitioner: Principles of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy in the Works of Kurt Vonnegut." Scholar Commons, 2010. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1802.

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Just as psychology and philosophy have influenced the field of literary studies, literature provides insight about the theories and practices of its sister disciplines. The purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate how literary works of Kurt Vonnegut illuminate principles of the influential branch of psychotherapy known as Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT). This thesis traces the similar philosophies and shared beliefs of Vonnegut and REBT's founder, Albert Ellis, and details how Ellis's REBT is illustrated in selected works of Vonnegut, specifically, Slaughterhouse-Five, Breakfast of Ch
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Baker, Brian. "The automatic eye : mechanization of the self in postwar American dystopias." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.366701.

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Dennett, Steven. "The return of the author in the work of Milan Kundera, Martin Amis, and Kurt Vonnegut." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.282614.

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Langdon, Gareth. "A self-conscious Kurt Vonnegut: an analysis of Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6802.

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The works of Kurt Vonnegut stand as seminal in the American literary canon. Looking at three of his most influential novels, namely Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions, this study aims to better understand the mechanisms which inform his fiction. Working chronologically through the novels, the study examines historical context, narrative technique, theoretical underpinnings and the social critique of each novel. Guided by an idea of the postmodern novel the study examines how these elements interact, concluding that by way of what may be considered "simple" yet self-co
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Azzopardi, Mark. "Saul Bellow and Kurt Vonnegut: history, politics, and American fiction in the cold war, 1944-1970." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/13057.

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This is a comparative study of Saul Bellow and Kurt Vonnegut, arguing that both writers’ engagements with the emerging historical and political dynamics of the Cold War need to be taken seriously if we are to understand how their careers began, developed, and have been read and canonized. I base my claim on detailed readings of four novels by Bellow (Dangling Man, The Victim, Herzog, Mr. Sammler’s Planet) and three novels by Vonnegut (Player Piano, Cat’s Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five), demonstrating that formal innovation in the work of both writers remains marked by tensions in national and int
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Jenkins, Jordan. "Living in Truth in the Age of Automatization." Thesis, Boston College, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/3045.

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Thesis advisor: Gerald Easter<br>"Living in Truth in the Age of Automatization" is a discussion of dehumanization in the period of technological and bureaucratic supremacy. The article uses the writings of former Czech president Václav Havel and American novelist Kurt Vonnegut to argue that neither the automatization inherent within the Eastern Communist Model nor the mass consumer culture of the Western Capitalist Model are ideal, and to discuss the possibility of a third way, a way called "living in truth" which protects human dignity and the right of every man to pursue meaningful work in a
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Nelson, James A. "The Right Thing to Say." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1338561128.

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Cook, Joshua D. "Navigating through "a nightmare of meaninglessness without end" a semi-structural reading of Kurt Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan /." Connect to resource online, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/1888.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2009.<br>Title from screen (viewed on August 26, 2009). Department of English, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): Jonathan Eller, John Rudy, Thomas Marvin. Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 67-68).
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Knippel, Mark Jacob 1983. "The Amber of the Moment." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11486.

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1 score (vii, 56 p.) Includes one sound recording in AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format)<br><italic>The Amber of the Moment</italic> is a thirteen-minute composition for orchestra. Inspiration for this piece is drawn from two sources: the novel <italic>Slaughterhouse Five</italic> by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., and my desire to utilize techniques derived from various musical cultures, including Balinese gamelan and African drumming and marimba playing. Although not directly narrative, much of the imagery portrayed in <italic>Slaughterhouse Five</italic> informed the emotional landscape of the piece. A
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Hinchcliffe, Richard. "Empty heroics, low comedy and pointless death : structures of melancholy in the early novels of Kurt Vonnegut." Thesis, University of Central Lancashire, 2000. http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/20770/.

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This thesis explores structures of melancholy in five of Kurt Vonnegut's early novels, Player Piano, The Sirens of Titan, Mother Night, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions. The thesis attempts to give new readings to each of the novels by drawing on critical approaches to melancholy and by viewing each text as being subject to contemporary cultural influences. In particular, the thesis maps how each of the novels comments on human progress through a combination of historical, scientific, cultural, social and political paradigms. In the chapters on The Sirens of Titan and Mother Nigh
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Moore, Erica Brown. "Practising the Posthumanities : evolutionary animals, machines and the posthuman in the fiction of J.G. Ballard and Kurt Vonnegut." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2011. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/23442/.

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This thesis demonstrates how selected texts by J.G. Ballard—Crash (1973), Concrete Island (1974) and High‐Rise 1975)—and Kurt Vonnegut—Player Piano (1952), Slaughterhouse‐Five(1969) and Galápagos (1985)—can be considered in terms of theoretical stances derived from posthumanism. By analysing representations of the ‘human’ in relation to both the ‘machine’ and the ‘evolutionary human animal’, this thesis illustrates the emergence of the posthuman subject. In addition, by recognising the intersection between posthumanism and evolutionary theory, a wider project of this thesis involves demonstrat
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Birgersson, Jonas. "Masculinities in Player Piano : Hegemonic Masculinity as a Totalitarian State." Thesis, Halmstad University, School of Humanities (HUM), 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-4220.

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<p>Vonnegut envisions a plutocratic America where the </p><p>aforementioned periphery has been made obsolete, where a corporate </p><p>oligarchy supersedes the presidency in authority. An example of </p><p>this structure is the absent father of the main character Paul </p><p>Proteus, George Proteus, who was before his death the National </p><p>Industrial, Commercial, Communications, Foodstuffs and Resources </p><p>Director, a position which might have been below the presidency at </p><p>that time , but the scales have tilted towards total domination by </p><p>those who fuel the economy, i.e. t
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Keegan, Diana Morna Gerrard Dickson. "A study of Camus' notion of the absurd and its mythology in "Catch-22" and "Slaughterhouse-Five"." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 139 p, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1460433511&sid=5&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Doherty, John E. "SNAFU reconsidered the evolution of writing a true war story from Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse five" to Tim O'Brien's "How to tell a true war story", and the blogs of "The sandbox" /." Click here for download, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1697854261&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3260&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Conklin, Robert Brian. "A fools' parade through three modern American novels : Catch-22, Slaughterhouse-five, and the World according to Garp /." Connect to resource, 1986. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1243521288.

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Gray, Nigel. "His story, a novel memoir (novel) ; and Fish out of water (thesis)." University of Western Australia. School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2009. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2009.0095.

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His Story takes the form of a fictive but autobiographically based investigation into the child and young adult I used to be, and follows that protagonist into early adulthood. It tries to show the damage done to that character and the way in which he damaged others in turn. As Hemingway said, We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to hurt like hell before you can write seriously. More importantly, the main protagonist is somebody who became concerned with, and cognizant of the main political and social events of his day. His life is set in its social context, and reaches ou
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Garvey, Brian T. "Literature of utopia and dystopia. Technological influences shaping the form and content of utopian visions." Thesis, University of Bradford, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/5026.

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We live in an age of rapid change. The advance of science and technology, throughout history, has culminated in periods of transition when social values have had to adapt to a changed environment. Such times have proved fertile ground for the expansion of the imagination. Utopian literature offers a vast archive of information concerning the relationship between scientific and technological progress and social change. Alterations in the most basic machinery of society inspired utopian authors to write of distant and future worlds which had achieved a state of harmony and plenty. The d
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Fevyer, David. "Reading the Anthropocene through science and apocalypse in the selected contemporary fiction of J.G. Ballard, Kurt Vonnegut, Cormac McCarthy and Ian McEwan." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2016. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/400663/.

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This thesis examines how six contemporary novels variously intervene in the current crisis of climate change. Through close readings of J G Ballard’s The Drowned World (1962) and Hello America (1981); Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006); Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle (1963) and Galapagos (1985); and Ian McEwan’s Solar (2010), the thesis aims to identify how the narrative and generic resources of contemporary fiction might help readers to think through and beyond the consequences of anthropocentric ways of thinking about the biosphere. Drawing upon the concept of the Anthropocene – and in particul
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Tuttle, Kerstin. ""I Could Carve a Better Man out of a Banana" Masculinity, the Dominant Fiction, and Historical Trauma in the Works of Kurt Vonnegut." Thesis, University of South Dakota, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10930795.

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<p> This project analyzes historical trauma, the dominant fiction, and male subjectivity as theorized by Kaja Silverman in selected Kurt Vonnegut novels. </p><p> Chapter one examines Billy Pilgrim, the focal character of <i>Slaughterhouse-Five </i>, as well as Vonnegut-as-narrator by analyzing the way these two men exhibit Kaja Silverman&rsquo;s notions of historical trauma, characterized by their failures to embody proper hegemonic masculinity as exhibited in popular culture and the dominant fiction. Despite Billy&rsquo;s comically absurd failures as a soldier and a civilian man, he survive
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Twa, Garth Andrew. "Listening to writing : a sociolinguistic enquiry into the creation of meaning and effect in modern American literature, focusing on the work of Kurt Vonnegut and George Saunders." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2011. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/7578/.

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This thesis proceeds in two modes, utilizing both a critical and a creative lens to think about the use of simple language in formal writing. It examines the production of a register that categorizes insider/outsider status (the mechanics) as well as interrogating the (un)conscious attempts of authors seeking to prise into or remain removed from established cultural identity (the intention). It investigates the use of the vernacular and the informal in American writing in general and how it is ultimately reflected and reworked through an autobiographical channel: an examination of voice, regis
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Simes, Peter A. "Literature in the Age of Science: Technology and Scientists in the Mid-Twentieth Century Works of Isaac Asimov, John Barth, Arthur C. Clarke, Thomas Pynchon, and Kurt Vonnegut." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2010. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc30511/.

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This study explores the depictions of technology and scientists in the literature of five writers during the 1960s. Scientists and technology associated with nuclear, computer, and space science are examined, focusing on their respective treatments by the following writers: John Barth, Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Pynchon, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke. Despite the close connections between the abovementioned sciences, space science is largely spared from negative critiques during the sixties. Through an analysis of Barth's Giles Goat-boy, Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49,
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Mills, Mark Spencer. "Interrogating History or Making History? Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, DeLillo's Libra, and the Shaping of Collective Memory." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2006. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1524.pdf.

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Worden, Joel Daniel. "The Galapagos in American consciousness American fiction writers' responses to Darwinism /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 225 p, 2005. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=954001621&sid=9&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Marceau, Catherine. "Socio-sonic control, deviant musicality, and countercultural resistance in Nineteen Eighty-Four, Player Piano, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/69914.

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Ce mémoire considère trois œuvres littéraires des décennies d'après-guerre dans lesquelles le contrôle social est omniprésent, soit Nineteen Eighty-Four de George Orwell, Player Piano de Kurt Vonnegut, et One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest de Ken Kesey. L'analyse propose que ces auteurs examinent les réponses individuelles et collectives possibles face au contrôle socio-sonique, incluant le conformisme et la déviance, à travers la musicalité de leurs personnages. Mon approche repose sur des théories reliées à la sociologie, la musicologie et les études sonores afin d'élaborer une perspective holi
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Kall, Filip. "”There is no why” : A Psychoanalytic Approach to Trauma and Delusion in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-31429.

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Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut provides a profound discussion on how the many traumas of war affect the human psyche. The novel’s protagonist, Billy Pilgrim, is a direct witness of many horrific events in World War II, which causes certain life-changing symptoms later in his life. This essay examines the psychological processes of Billy Pilgrim in relation to the traumatic events he experiences in the war. More specifically, Billy’s delusions of supernatural nature are discussed in an attempt to find a connection to the war-trauma. In doing this, the analysis utilizes a psychoanalytic ap
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Dahl, Eric N. "A comparative study of secular accounts ot the apocalypse in four contemporary novels : -- Kurt Vonnegut's Galapagos, The Road by Cormac McCarthy -- Nicolas Dickner's Tarmac, and Les larmes de saint Laurent by Dominique Fortier." Mémoire, Université de Sherbrooke, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11143/6501.

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Abstract: This thesis is a comparative analysis of the apocalypse as a theme in four novels, two American and two Quebecois. Originally a biblical myth, apocalyptic tales are comprised of three narrative aspects defined Bertrand Gervais as Crisis, Time, Meaning / Sense. The four novels are analyzed individually according to these three elements. The American novels correspond to the more traditional pattern of the myth in which the world faces mass destruction followed by the survival of of the chosen-ones who will experience redemption. Contrarily, the two others demonstrate the conceptualiza
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Skorobogatov, Yana. "Kurt Vonnegut in the U.S.S.R." 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/19910.

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Since the mid-twentieth century, Kurt Vonnegut has enjoyed a permanent spot on the list of history’s most widely read and beloved American authors. Science fiction classics like Cat’s Cradle (1963) and Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) turned Vonnegut into a domestic counter-cultural literary sensation in the United States at mid-century. The presence of a loyal Vonnegut fan base in America, and in the west more broadly, is a well-documented fact. What is less well known among scholars and those familiar with Vonnegut’s work is his popularity in a far more distant place: the Soviet Union. Beginning i
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Ho, Ching-Fang, and 何景芳. "Kurt Vonnegut And Mirrored Me." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/42098128777273113648.

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碩士<br>國立臺南藝術大學<br>音像藝術管理研究所<br>94<br>The thesis is based on Jacques Lacan’s theory of Mirror Stage. Combining the works of Kurt Vonnegut, the context of World War Ⅱ and the my rumination over these topics , I tried to construct Jacques Lacan, the author, and deconstruct me, the reader. The research puts focus on： 1. Analyzing Kurt Vonnegut and me with the theory of Mirror Stage. 2. Compressing the connection between Kurt Vonnegut and me, then creating a new text, the script of〝The Mirror〞. 3. Constructing Kurt Vonnegut and deconstructing me with my script, 〝The Mirror〞. Key Words： Jacque
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Wu, Shu-Fen, and 吳淑芬. "Three Metafictional Novels of Kurt Vonnegut." Thesis, 1994. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/32735106789691721393.

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Chen, Jolene Lipu, and 陳笠菩. "Fatalism in Kurt Vonnegut''s Slaughterhouse-Five." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/60919552480947708970.

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碩士<br>國立中正大學<br>外國語文研究所<br>90<br>Abstract Fatalistic perspective assertions permeate throughout Kurt Vonnegut’s fiction Most of the commentators and readers seem to treat Vonnegut as a believer of fatalism. He seems to advocate “resigned acceptance” and encourage “passive behaviors” of his protagonist, Billy Pilgrim, in his Slaughterhouse-Five. Vonnegut even describes human condition as “bugs trapped in amber,” for he had seen too many dark sides in human nature. But this thought still leave to be controversial. And yet I prefer taking him as a fighter to seeing him a fatalist from
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Chiang, Kung-shan, and 江坤山. "Messages from Tralfamadore: Writing Strategies in Kurt Vonnegut'' s ." Thesis, 1996. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/12373558433755041314.

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碩士<br>淡江大學<br>西洋語文研究所<br>84<br>Though often labeled as an anti-war novel, Kurt Vonnegut''s <Slaughterhouse-Five> is also a metafictional writing which shows the author''s self-conscious attitude toward the act of writing and his role as an author. Looking at the text through theories of metafiction, this thesis aims to examine how Vonnegut narrates the past self-consciously. In the first chapter, I discuss why Vonnegut decided to write his book about the Dresden bombin
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Engle, Patricia McCloskey. "The Silko-Vonnegut Factor : Literary strategies that re-map temporal instincts /." Diss., 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3215834.

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Desharnais, Isabelle. "Figuration et imaginaire scientifique chez William Gaddis, John Updike et Kurt Vonnegut." Mémoire, 2006. http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/2869/1/M9357.pdf.

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La pensée provenant du monde scientifique et celle représentée dans le cadre narratif du roman sont toutes deux issues d'une même volonté de révéler les objets de ces pensées, même si leur articulation est indubitablement différente. La science utilise le langage pour décrire le monde et aspire à des avancées techniques, alors que le langage du roman est l'expression d'une expérience. Les trois romans de notre étude intègrent certains aspects de la pensée scientifique et permettent ainsi de rendre compte des chassés-croisés entre la science et le littéraire. L'étude propose de faire état de l'
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Wu, Hsin-lun, and 吳欣倫. "Postmodernist Writing Strategies & Deterritorialization in Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/65951891097344717896.

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碩士<br>世新大學<br>英語學研究所(含碩專班)<br>100<br>The thesis is divided into four chapters. It explores the subversive characteristics which aim to destabilize, deconstruct, and deterritorialize the conventional writing models that place authors in an active position and dominate literary works and discourses in the Western world. The first chapter introduces theories employed in the textual analysis and offers a brief introduction of both the text and context of Breakfast of Champions. In the second chapter, I attempt to discuss how Vonnegut manages his post-modernist writing strategies and deterritoriali
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Hardin, Miriam. "Absurd America in the novels of Vonnegut, Pynchon, and Boyle /." Diss., 2001. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3036258.

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Rauber, Romina Victoria. "Matadero Cinco de Kurt Vonnegut: Estructura antropológico-mítica de iniciación y novela de autoformación." Bachelor's thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11086/407.

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Trabajo final (Tesis) de la carrera de Licenciatura en Letras Modernas, elaborada en el año 2011, en el área temática de Literatura de Habla Inglesa y bajo la dirección del Lic. Hernán Peirotti. "La problemática del proceso de iniciación constituye un tema central en la novela Slaughterhouse Five or The Children’s Crusade de Kurt Vonnegut y la inscribe en el género de la novela de autoformación. Los personajes de Billy Pilgrim, Kilgore Trout y el autor-narrador funcionan, desde el recurso del desdoblamiento, como los ejes para representar en tres modos y niveles diferentes la evolución del apr
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