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Shafi, Uzma. "Postmodernist Literary Movement: A Comprehensive Study of Technique in Vonnegut’s Novels." International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 2, no. 4 (2017): 203–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijels.2.4.24.

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Kurt Vonnegut is an integral part of the postmodernist literary movement and a master of satire, gallows humor, and science fiction. The uniqueness of Vonnegut's works is that in addition to having excellent themes, the novels are also technically accomplished and colorful. Vonnegut refuses to confine himself to a single form of fiction, which is something that is certainly clear from a review of his books. In reality, modal diversity is demonstrated in each of his works. Vonnegut, a man of profound vision, tries to experiment with brilliant techniques in his novels, including science fiction, comic science fiction, black humor, dark humor, morbid humor, gallows humor, meta-fiction, satire, political satire, postmodernism, dark comedy, war novels, absurdist fiction, modes of absurdity, and semi-autobiographical writing. In his works, he deftly weaves these strategies around his theme. He draws attention to the numerous social defects, the atrocities of war, and the sorrows of modern man. He imagines a society free of societal ills, where people are not enslaved by technology. This essay aims to analyze the literary devices used by Vonnegut in his works.

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Herbert, J. X., and Suresh Frederick. "Love and Charity: A Biblical Humanistic Study of Kurt Vonnegut’s God Bless You Mr. Rosewater." World Journal of English Language 12, no. 5 (May 2, 2022): 83. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/wjel.v12n5p83.

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This paper attempts to see how Kurt Vonnegut’s God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater offers biblical humanism as an antidote to the self-centred attitude that plagues human society. Here Vonnegut is suggesting that a combination of the biblical tenets of charity and love together is the hope for the future. While humanism emphasised individualism, the Gospels insists on individual acts of charity and love. So, a biblical humanism demonstrated through individualised acts of love and charity can counteract the sufferings caused by greed-driven selfish behaviours that are responsible for most of the private and social ills. Vonnegut in this novel through two opposite characters Eliot Rosewater and Norman Mushari demonstrates how love and greed are always antithetical to each other and how the former needs to prevail. Here Vonnegut covertly and at times, explicitly seeks to underpin this theme with the help of Christ’s Sermon on the Mount.

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Sofyan, Ilhamdi Hafiz. "“There Is No Good War”: The Firebombing of Dresden and Kurt Vonnegut’s View Towards World War II in Slaughterhouse-Five." Vivid Journal of Language and Literature 6, no. 2 (July 23, 2019): 60. http://dx.doi.org/10.25077/vj.6.2.60-67.2017.

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This study discusses Kurt Vonnegut's view of war reflected in his novel Slaughterhouse-Five and also his efforts in conveying his views through his novel. This novel is based on the experience of Kurt Vonnegut during World War II when he was imprisoned in a German city called Dresden and witnessed the destruction of the city on February 13, 1945 in an Allied bombing operation. In the novel, Vonnegut rewrote his experience in the form of a fiction. In discussing this literary work, I used the expressive theory by M. H. Abrams which was supported by a historical and biographical approach. In analyzing this literary work, I took quotes from the novel Slaughterhouse-Five as the main data as well as other data as secondary data, such as the biography of the author, interviews with the author taken from various sources, as well as writings on author that is relevant to the discussion in this study. The result show that Kurt Vonnegut see war as something that was completely meaningless and only caused destruction and death for innocent residents. Kurt Vonnegut uses narrative techniques such as black humor, irony, and metaphysics at Slaughterhouse-Five so that his views on war can be conveyed to his readers.

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Shi, Jing. "On the Postmodern Narrative Techniques in Slaughterhouse-Five." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 9, no. 5 (May 1, 2019): 553. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.0905.09.

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Kurt Vonnegut is admitted as a great master of postmodern writer. Vonnegut’s success is mainly attributed to his unique narrative approaches, various expressive methods and dramatic artistic effects. The application of metafiction is particularly obvious and significant in his novels. Slaughterhouse-Five is one of typical examples of the successful adoption of metafiction. The metafiction of Vonnegut’s style, applied in Slaughterhouse-Five, shows itself in three distinctive approaches—non-linear narrative, collage and parody. Based on postmodern narrative theory, the application of these three distinctive narrative techniques will be analyzed in details in this thesis. The analysis mainly includes the reasons why they are applied in the novel and the functions how they work. The paper is mainly divided into five parts. Relevant information of Vonnegut, postmodern metafiction and previous researches are introduced in the first chapter. After getting better acquainted with basic knowledge, three narrative methods of Vonnegut’s metafiction including non-linear narrative, collage and parody are separately and detailedly analyzed in the following three chapters. Every method applied in the novel deepens the anti-war theme, and then exposes war’s evilness and absurdity further. Finally, the last part is a conclusion which is an emphasis on effects of Vonnegut’s unique narrative techniques.

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BAUM, RUDY M. "Kurt Vonnegut." Chemical & Engineering News 85, no. 17 (April 23, 2007): 3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cen-v085n017.p003.

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Kunze, Peter C. "“‘Cheers, Kurt Vonnegut’: The Letters of Kurt Vonnegut”." Studies in American Humor 26 (January 1, 2012): 115–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.26.2012.0115.

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BABAEI, ABDOLRAZAGH, and AMIN TAADOLKHAH. "Portrayal of the American Culture through Metafiction." Journal of Education Culture and Society 4, no. 2 (January 7, 2020): 9–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.15503/jecs20132.9.15.

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Kurt Vonnegut’s position that artists should be treasured as alarm systems and as biological agents of change comes most pertinent in his two great novels. The selected English novels of the past century – Cat’s Cradle (1963), Slaughterhouse Five (1969), and Breakfast of Champions (1973) – connect the world of fiction to the harsh realities of the world via creative metafictional strategies, making literature an alarm coated with the comforting lies ofstorytelling. It is metafi ction that enables Vonnegut to create different understandings of historical events by writing a kind of literature that combines facts and fiction. Defi ned as a kind of narrative that “self-consciously and systematically draws attention to its status as artefact” metafiction stands against the duplicitous “suspension of disbelief” that is simply an imitation and interpretation of presumed realities. As a postmodern mode of writing it opts for an undisguised narration that undermines not only the author’s univocal control over fiction but also challenges the established understanding of the ideas. Multidimensional display of events and thoughts by Vonnegut works in direction of metafiction to give readers a self-conscious awareness of what they read. Hiroshima bombing in 1946 and the destruction of Dresden in Germany by allied forces in World War II are the subjects of the selected novels respectively. In them Vonnegut presents a creative account in the form of playful fictions. The study aims to investigate how the novelist portrayed human mentality of the American culture by telling self-referentialstories that focus on two historical events and some prevailing cultural problems.

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Fugate, Clare. "Vonnegut Warned Us." Phi Delta Kappan 89, no. 1 (September 2007): 71–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/003172170708900113.

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Di Leo, Jeffrey R., Charles B. Harris, Steve Katz, Jerome Klinkowitz, Lance Olsen, Barry Wallenstein, and Regina Weinreich. "Remembering Kurt Vonnegut." American Book Review 28, no. 5 (2007): 30–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/abr.2007.0141.

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Donze, Richard. "The Vonnegut Letter." JAMA 320, no. 15 (October 16, 2018): 1606. http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2018.7416.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Vonnegut"

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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 the theme of religion in Cat’s Cradle. It will consider how religion is presented in society and how fundamental opinion can become embedded in our social and cultural structures. It will further consider the cultural shift in belief from religion to science, juxtaposing the two ideals and highlighting the destructive forces of absolute belief and fundamental opinion. Chapter Two will concentrate on Player Piano, and how technology could have a detrimental effect on the progress of human civilisation. It considers how valuable technology is to the human experience, and what happens to civilisation if humans are forced to surrender everything that gives their lives meaning. Chapter Three will analyse Slaughterhouse-Five, looking closely at the representation of war, and its effects on the mental state of those that are forced to encounter it. It will engage with the ‘ideals’ of war presented in society juxtaposed with the experience of actually taking part in war. Vonnegut critiqued the American social, political and religious structures prevalent throughout his life. To Vonnegut, America had the possibility to become a blueprint for the rest of the world, a role model for the liberation and equality of all human beings, but it needed work.

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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 dignity, and this key is to be found within ourselves, not without.

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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 Author”(1969) by Michel Foucault. Barthes explains an author metaphorically dies after his book is published and Foucault questions the author’s role and importance to his novel. Vonnegut juxtaposes fictional and nonfictional material whereby his character is paramount to his work. Therefore, Vonnegut challenges Barthes and Foucault’s notion that an author restricts his work; rather, Vonnegut’s identity empowers his novels.

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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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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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Books on the topic "Vonnegut"

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Morse, Donald E. Kurt Vonnegut. San Bernadino, Calif: Borgo Press, 1992.

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Morse, Donald E. Kurt Vonnegut. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, 1992.

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Harold, Bloom, ed. Kurt Vonnegut. New York: Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2008.

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Morse, DonaldE. Kurt Vonnegut. San Bernardino, Calif: Borgo Press, 1992.

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Harold, Bloom, ed. Kurt Vonnegut. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2000.

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Tally, Robert T. Kurt Vonnegut. Ipswich, Massachusetts: Salem Press/Grey House Publishing, 2013.

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Kurt, Vonnegut. Kurt Vonnegut: Letters. New York: Delacorte Press, 2012.

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Klinkowitz, Jerome. The Vonnegut effect. Columbia, S.C: University of South Carolina Press, 2010.

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Allen, William Rodney. Understanding Kurt Vonnegut. Columbia, S.C: University of South Carolina Press, 1991.

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Kurt, Vonnegut. Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1988.

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Book chapters on the topic "Vonnegut"

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Klinkowitz, Jerome. "Kurt Vonnegut." In A Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fiction, 420–27. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444310108.ch39.

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Kelleter, Frank. "Vonnegut, Kurt." In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 1. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_18833-1.

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Böker, Uwe, and Frank Kelleter. "Kurt Vonnegut." In Kindler Kompakt Amerikanische Literatur 20. Jahrhundert, 170–73. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05528-6_36.

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Freese, Peter. "Vonnegut, Kurt: Armageddon in Retrospect." In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 1–2. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_21384-1.

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Jowett, Lorna. "Folding Time: History, Subjectivity, and Intimacy in Vonnegut." In New Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut, 133–46. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230100817_8.

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Davis, Todd. "Flabbergasted." In New Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut, 3–9. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230100817_1.

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Broer, Lawrence R. "Duty Dance with Death: A Farewell to Arms and Slaughterhouse-Five." In New Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut, 167–92. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230100817_10.

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Glover, Chris. "“Somewhere in There Was Springtime”: Kurt Vonnegut, His Apocalypses, and His Post-9/11 Heirs." In New Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut, 193–212. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230100817_11.

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Allen, Claire. "Wampeters and Foma? Misreading Religion in Cat’s Cradle and The Book of Dave." In New Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut, 213–25. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230100817_12.

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Tew, Philip. "Kurt Vonnegut’s Mother Night (1961): Howard W. Campbell, Jr., and the Banalities of Evil." In New Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut, 11–26. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230100817_2.

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Conference papers on the topic "Vonnegut"

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Olizko, Natalya. "Hypertextual Relations In The Works Of K. Vonnegut Jr. Of 1952-1969 Period." In Philological Readings. European Publisher, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2020.04.02.60.

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Daaloul, Sana. "Time and Temporality in A Selection of Narratives by Kurt Vonnegut and Brian Evenson." In International Conference on Advanced Research in Social Sciences. Acavent, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.33422/icarss.2019.03.82.

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Nefedova, Olga I. "The Holy Grail As A Dialogue Of Stories In The Novel By Kurt Vonnegut 'Bluebeard'." In Dialogue of Cultures - Culture of Dialogue: from Conflicting to Understanding. European Publisher, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2020.11.03.68.

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Терентьев, Олег. "LINGUISTIC REPRESENTATION OF HOENIKKER’S FAMILY CHARACTERS IN K. VONNEGUT’S NOVEL “CAT’S CRADLE”." In CROSS-CULTURAL↔INTRA-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION: THEORY AND PRACTICE OF TRAINING AND TRANSLATING. Baskir State University, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.33184/miktipoip-2021-12-02.39.

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