Books with Significant Portions on Vonnegut

  • Aldiss, Brian W.  Billion Year Spree: The True History of Science Fiction. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1973. 258, 278-9, 313-6.
  • Amis, Martin.  The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America. New York: Penguin Books, 1987. 132-7, 187, 199.
  • Berger, Harold L.  Science Fiction and the New Dark Age. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green U Popular P, 1976. ix, 9, 17-19, 20, 22, 25, 37, 65, 69, 77, 123-4, 215n.
  • Blair, John G.  The Confidence Man in Modern Fiction. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1979. 14-15, 24, 98-111, 113, 132-6, 139.
  • Bryant, Jerry H.  The Open Decision: The Contemporary American Novel and Its Intellectual Background. New York: Free P, 1970. 303-24.
  • Dickstein, Morris.  Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties. New York: Basic Books, 1977.
  • Farrell, Susan.   Imaging Home:  American War Fiction from Hemingway to 9/11.  New York:  Camden House Publishing, 2017.
  • Harris, Charles, B.  Contemporary American Novelists of the Absurd. New Haven, CT: College and UP, 1971. 51-75.
  • Hassan, Ihab Habib.  Contemporary American Literature, 1945-1972. New York: Ungar, 1973. 45-47, 65, 86.
  • Hauck, Richard Boyd.  A Cheerful Nihilism: Confidence and “The Absurd” in American Humorous Fiction. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1971. 237-45.
  • Hendin, Josephine.  Vulnerable People: A View of American Fiction Since 1945. New York: Oxford UP, 1978.
  • Hipkiss, Robert A.  The American Absurd: Pynchon, Vonnegut, and Barth. Port Washington, NY: Associated Faculty P, 1984. 43-73.
  • Hume, Kathyrn.  Fantasy and Mimesis: Responses to Reality in Western Literature. New York: Methuen, 1984.
  • Jones, Peter G.  War and the Novelist: Appraising the American War Novel. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1976. 2, 203-29, 234-5.
  • Karl, Frederick Robert.  American Fictions: 1940-1980. New York: Harper & Row, 1983.
  • Kazin, Alfred.  Bright Book of Life: American Novelists and Storytellers from Hemingway to Mailer. Boston: Little, Brown, 1973. 82-3, 86-90.
  • Kennard, Jean.  Number and Nightmare: Forms of Fantasy in Contemporary Literature. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1975. 101-28, 131-3, 203-4.
  • Ketterer, David.  New Worlds for Old: The Apocalyptic Imagination, Science Fiction and American Literature. Garden City, NY: Anchor P, 1974.
  • Klinkowitz, Jerome.  The American 1960’s: Imaginative Acts in a Decade of Change. Ames: Iowa State UP, 1980.
  •                   .  Literary Subversions: New American Fiction and the Practice of   Criticism. Carbondale: Southern Illinois P, 1985.
  •                   .  The Practice of Fiction in America: Writers from Hawthorne to the Present. Ames: Iowa State UP, 1980.
  •                   .  The Self-Apparent Word: Fiction as Language/Language as Fiction. Carbondale: Southern Illinois P, 1985.
  • May, John R.  Toward a New Earth: Apocalypse in the American Novel. Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame P, 1972. 172-200.
  • Olderman, Raymond.  Beyond the Waste Land: A Study of the American Novel in the Nineteen-Sixties. New Haven: Yale UP, 1972. 189-219.
  • Scholes, Robert E. The Fabulators. New York: Oxford UP, 1967.
  • Schultz, Max F.  Black Humor Fiction in the Sixties: A Pluralistic Definition of Man and His World. Athens: Ohio UP, 1973. 32-65.
  • Singh, Sukhbir. The Survivor in Contemporary American Fiction: Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Delhi: B.R. Pub. Corp., 1991.
  • Walsh, Chad.  From Utopia to Nightmare. New York: Harper & Row, 1962. 85-8.
  • Warrick, Patricia S.  The Cybernetic Imagination in Science Fiction. Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 1980. 89, 125, 134-9.