UID:
almahu_9949386082302882
Format:
1 online resource (241 pages) :
,
illustrations
ISBN:
9781000092745
,
1000092747
,
9780367521646
,
0367521644
,
9781000092783
,
100009278X
,
9781000092820
,
1000092828
Series Statement:
Routledge research in American literature and culture
Content:
Posthumanism in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut: Matter That Complains So re-examines the prevailing critical consensus that Kurt Vonnegut was a humanist writer. While more difficult elements of his work have often been the subject of scholarly attention, the tendency amongst critics writing on Vonnegut is to disavow them, or to subsume them within a liberal humanist framework. When Vonnegut's work is read from a posthumanist perspective, however, the productive paradoxes of his work are more fully realised. Drawing on New Materialist, Eco-Critical and Systems Theory methodologies, this book highlights posthumanist themes in six of Vonnegut's most famous novels, and emphasises the ways in which Vonnegut troubles human/non-human, natural/artificial, and material/discursive hierarchical binaries
Note:
Comic material. Cat's cradle : the life and times of Ice-nine -- Breakfast of champions : rebirth suspended -- Environment and evolution. Mother night : a nation of two -- Galapagos : writing on air -- Space and time. The sirens of Titan : matter that complains so -- Slaughterhouse-five : "Poo-tee-weet?"
Additional Edition:
Print version: Hicks, Andrew John. Posthumanism in the novels of Kurt Vonnegut. New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021 ISBN 9780367858551
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780367521646
