Journal and Book Articles, 1970 – 1979

  • Abadi-Nagy, Zoltan. “Ironic Messianism in Recent American Fiction.” Studies in English and American 4 (1978): 63-83.
  •                   . “‘The Skilful Seducer’: Of Vonnegut’s Brand of Comedy.” Hungarian Studies in English 8 (1974): 45-56.
  • Auwera, Fernand. “Lucky Punch.” Dietsche Warande en Belfort: Tijdschrift voor Letterkunde, Kunst en Geestesleven 122 (1977): 783-5.
  • Bodtke, Richard.  “Great Sorrows, Small Joys: The World of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.”  Crosscurrents 20 (1970): 120-25.
  • Bosworth, David.  “The Literature of Awe.”  Antioch Review 37.1 (1979): 4-26.
  • Bourjaily, Vance.  “What Vonnegut Is and Isn’t.”  New York Times Book Review 13 Aug. 1972: 3, 10.
  • Breinig, Helmbrecht. “Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., ‘Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow’ (1954).” Die amerikanische Short Story der Gegenwart: Interpretationen. Ed. Peter Freese. Berlin: Schmidt, 1976. 151-9.
  • Brier, Peter A. “Caliban Reigns: Romantic Theory and Some Contemporary Fantasists.” Denver Quarterly 13.1 (1978): 38-51.
  • Buck, Lynn.  “Vonnegut’s World of Comic Futility.”  Studies in American Fiction 3 (1975): 181-98.
  • Burhans, Clinton.  “Hemingway and Vonnegut: Diminishing Vision in a Dying Age.”  Modern Fiction Studies 21 (1975): 173-91.
  • Crichton, Michael.  “Slaughterhouse-Five.” The Critic as Artist: Essays on Books, 1920-1970. Ed. Gilbert A. Harrison. New York: Liveright, 1972. 100-07.
  • Clancy, L. J.  “If the Accident Will: The Novels of Kurt Vonnegut.”  Meanjin Quarterly 30 (1971): 37-45.
  • Cohn, Alan M. “A Vonnegut Rarissima: A Supplement to Hudgens and to Pieratt and Klinkowitz.” PBSA 73 (1979): 365-6.
  • Crump, G. B. “D.H. Lawrence and the Immediate Present: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Ken Kesey, and Wright Morris.” D. H. Lawrence Review 10 (1977): 103-41.
  • Dahiya, Bhim. “Structural Patterns in the Novels of Barth, Vonnegut, and Pynchon.” Indian Journal of American Studies 5.1-2 (1976): 53-68.
  • DeMott, Benjamin.  “Vonnegut’s Otherworldy Laughter.”  Saturday Review 1 May 1971: 29-32, 38.
  • Dimeo, Stephen.  “Novel into Film: So It Goes.” The Modern American Novel and the Movies. Eds. Gerald Peary and Roger Shatzkin. New York: Ungar, 1978. 282-92.
  • Doxey, William S.  “Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle.”  The Explicator 37.4 (1979): 6.
  • Edelstein, Arnold.  “Slaughterhouse-Five: Time Out of Joint.”  College Literature 1 (1974): 128-39.
  • Engel, David.  “On the Question of Foma: A Study of the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.”  Riverside Quarterly 5 (1972): 119-28.
  • Engel, Wilson F., III. “Pilgrim as Prisoner: Cummings and Vonnegut.” Notes on Contemporary Literature 7.1 (1977): 13-14.
  • Farmer, Philip Jose.  “The Obscure Life and Hard Times of Kilgore Trout.” The Book of Philip Jose Farmer. New York: Daw Books, 1973. 218-31.
  • Fiedler, Leslie A.  “The Divine Stupidity of Kurt Vonnegut.”  Esquire Sept. 1970: 195-7, 199-200, 202-4.
  • Fiene, Donald M. “Kurt Vonnegut as an American Dissident: His Popularity in the Soviet Union and His Affinities with Russian Literature.” Vonnegut in America: An Introduction to the Life and Works of Kurt Vonnegut. Eds. Jerome Klinkowitz and Donald L. Lawler. New York: Dell, 1977. 258-93.
  • _____. “Vonnegut’s Quotations from Dostoevsky.” NMAL 1 (1977): Item 29.
  • _____. “Vonnegut’s Sirens of Titan.” Explicator 34 (1975): Item 27.
  • Flora, Joseph M. “Cabell as Precursor: Reflections on Cabell and Vonnegut.” Kalki 6 (1975): 118-37.
  • Frank, Armin P. “Kurt Vonnegut.” Amerikanische Literatur der Gegenwart. Ed. Martin Christadler. Stuttgart, Germany: Alfred Kroner, 1973. 408-24.
  • Freese, Peter. “Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five (1969).” Der Roman im Englischunterricht der Sekundarstufe, II: Theorie und Praxis. Eds. Peter Freese and Liesel Hermes. Paderborn, Germany: Shoningh, 1977. 294-316.
  • Friedman, Melvin J.  “Dislocations of Setting and Word: Notes on American Fiction Since 1950.”  Studies in American Fiction 5 (1977): 79-98.
  • Godshalk, William L. “The Recurring Characters of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.” Notes on Contemporary Literature 3.1 (1973): 2-3.
  •  _____. “Vonnegut and Shakespeare: Rosewater in Elsinore.”  Critique 15.2 (1973): 37-48.
  • Greiner, Donald J.  “Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five and the Fiction of Atrocity.”  Critique 14.3 (1973): 38-51.
  • Gros-Louis, Doloros K.  “The Ironic Christ Figure in Slaughterhouse-Five.” Biblical Images in Literature. Eds. Roland Bartel, James S. Ackerman and Thayer S. Warshaw. New York: Abingdon, 1975. 161-75.
  • ____. “Slaughterhouse-Five: Pacifism vs. Passiveness.” Ball State University Forum 18.2 (1977): 3-8.
  • Grossman, Edward. “Vonnegut and His Audience.” Commentary 58.1 (1974): 40-6.
  • Hansen, Arlen J.  “The Celebration of Solipsism: A New Trend in American Fiction.” Modern Fiction Studies 19 (1973): 5-15.
  • Harris, Charles B. “Time, Uncertainty, and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: A Reading of Slaughterhouse-Five.” Centennial Review 20 (1976): 228-43.
  • Hartshorne, Thomas L. “From Catch-22 to Slaughterhouse V: The Decline of the Political Mode.” South Atlantic Quarterly 78 (1979): 17-33.
  • Haskell, John D., Jr. “Addendum to Pieratt and Klinkowitz: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 70 (1976): 122.
  • Hayman, David.  “The Jolly Mix: Notes on Techniques, Style, and Decorum in Slaughterhouse-Five.”  Summary 1.2 (1977): 44-50.
  • Hendin, Josephine.  “Writer as Culture Hero.”  Harpers July 1974: 82-7.
  • Irving, John.  “Kurt Vonnegut and His Critics.”  New Republic 22 Sept. 1979: 41-9.
  • Isaacs, Neil D.  “Unstuck in Time: Clockwork Orange and Slaughterhouse-Five.”  Literature/Film Quarterly 1 (1973): 122-31.
  • Iwamoto, Iwao. “A Clown’s Say: A Study of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.’s Slaughterhouse-Five.” Studies in English Literature. Eng. No. (1975): 21-31.
  • Jones, Fiona K. “The Twentieth-Century Writer and the Image of the Computer.” Computers and Human Communication: Problems and Prospects. Eds. David L. Crowner and Laurence A. Marschall. Washington, DC: UP of America, 1974. 167-80.
  • Kael, Pauline.  “Current Cinema.”  New Yorker 23 Jan. 1971: 76-8.
  • Kazin, Alfred.  “The War Novel from Mailer to Vonnegut.”  Saturday Review 6 Feb. 1971: 13-15, 36.
  • Kennedy, R. C.  “Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.”  Art International 15 (1971): 20-25.
  • Klinkowitz, Jerome. “The Dramatization of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.” Players 50 (1975): 62-4.
  •                   .  “Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. and the Crime of His Times.”  Critique 12.3 (1971): 38-53.
  •                   . “The Literary Career of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.” Modern Fiction Studies 19 (1973): 57-67.
  • Kopper, Edward A., Jr. “Color Symbolism in Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five.” NMAL 1 (1977): Item 17.
  •                   . “Operation Gomorrah in Slaughterhouse-Five.” Notes on Contemporary Literature 8.4 (1978): 6.
  • Lawing, John V., Jr.  “Kurt Vonnegut: Charming Nihilisit.”  Christianity Today 14 Feb. 1979: 17-20, 22.
  • LeClair, Thomas.  “Death and Black Humor.”  Critique 17.1 (1975): 5-40.
  • Leff, Leonard.  “Science and Destruction in Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle.”  Rectangle 46 (1971): 28-32.
  •                   .  “Utopia Reconstructed: Alienation in Vonnegut’s God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater.”  Critique 12.3 (1971): 29-37.
  • Lessing, Doris.  “Vonnegut’s Responsibility.”  New York Times Book Review 4 Feb. 1973: 35.
  • Leverence, W. John.  “Cat’s Cradle and Traditional American Humor.”  Journal of Popular Culture 5 (1972): 955-63.
  • Mangum, Bryant. “Cat’s Cradle’s Jonah-John and the Garden of Ice-Nine.” Notes on Contemporary Literature 9.3 (1979): 9-11.
  • May, John R.  “Vonnegut’s Humor and the Limits of Hope.”  Twentieth Century Literature 18.1 (1972): 25-36.
  • McNelly, Willis E.  “Science Fiction the Modern Mythology.” SF: The Other Side of Realism. Ed. Thomas D. Clareson. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green U Popular P, 1971. 193-8.
  • McGinnis, Wayne.  “The Arbitrary Cycle of Slaughterhouse-Five: A Relation of Form to Theme.”  Critique 17.1 (1975): 55-68.
  •                   .  “The Source and Implications of Ice-Nine in Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle.”  American Notes and Queries 13 (1974): 40-41.
  •                   .  “Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions: A Reductive Success.”  Notes on Contemporary Literature 5.3 (1975): 6-9.
  • McGinnis, Wayne D. “The Ambiguities of Bokononism.” Iowa English Bulletin: Yearbook 26.7 (1977): 21-3.
  •                   . “Names in Vonnegut’s Fiction.” Notes on Contemporary Literature 3.2 [4] (1973): 7-9.
  • McInerney, John M. “Children for Vonnegut.” NMAL 3 (1978): Item 4.
  • Mendelson, Maurice. “Reading Kurt Vonnegut.” Soviet Literature 8 (1975): 156-9.
  • Merrill, Robert.  “Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions: The Conversion of Heliogabalus.”  Critique 18.3 (1977): 99-108.
  • Merrill, Robert, and Peter A. Scholl.  “Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five: The Requirements of Chaos.”  Studies in American Fiction 6 (1978): 65-76.
  • Messent, Peter B.  “Breakfast of Champions: The Direction of Kurt Vonnegut’s Fiction.”  Journal of American Studies 8 (1974): 101-14.
  • Morrow, Patrick D. “The Womb Image in Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle.” Notes on Contemporary Literature 6.5 (1976): 11-13.
  • Myers, David.  “Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: Morality-Myth in the Antinovel.”  International Fiction Review 3 (1976): 52-6.
  • Nelson, Gerald B.  “Eliot Rosewater.” Ten Versions of America. New York: Knopf, 1972. 61-76.
  • Nelson, Joyce.  “Slaughterhouse-Five: Novel and Film.”  Literature/Film Quarterly 1 (1973): 149-53.
  •                   .  “Vonnegut and Bugs in Amber.”  Journal of Popular Culture 7 (1973): 551-8.
  • Nicol, Charles.  “The Ideas of an Anti-Intellectual.”  National Review 28 Sept. 1973: 1064-5.
  • Noguchi, Kenji. “Slaughterhouse-Five and Vonnegut’s ‘Genial Desperado Philosophy’.” Kyushu American Literature 16 (1975): 17-20.
  • O’Connor, Gerard W. “The Function of Time Travel in Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five.” Riverside Quarterly 5 (1972): 206-7.
  • O’Sullivan, Maurice J., Jr.  “Slaughterhouse-Five: Kurt Vonnegut’s Anti-memoirs.”  Essays in Literature 3 (1976): 44-50.
  • Pauly, Rebecca M.  “The Moral Stance of Kurt Vonnegut.”  Extrapolation 15 (1973): 66-71.
  • Prioli, Carmine A. “Kurt Vonnegut’s Duty-Dance.” Essays in Literature 1.3 (1973): 44-50.
  • Pütz, Manfred.  “Imagination and Self-Definition.”  Partisan Review 44.2 (1977): 235-44.
  • Rackstraw, Loree.  “Paradise Re-Lost.”  North American Review 261 (1976): 63-4.
  •                   .  “Vonnegut the Diviner and Other Auguries.”  North American Review 264 (1979): 74-6.
  • Ranley, Ernest W.  “What Are People For? Man, Fate and Kurt Vonnegut.”  Commonweal 7 (1971 May): 207-11.
  • Reed, Peter J.  “Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.” American Novelists since World War II. Eds. Jeffrey Helterman and Richard Layman. Detroit, MI: Thomson Gale, 1978. 493-508.
  • Rhodes, Carolyn. “Tyranny by Computer: Automated Data Processing and Oppressive Government in Science Fiction.” Many Futures, Many Worlds: Theme and Form in Science Fiction. Ed. Thomas D. Clareson. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 1977. 66-93.
  • Rice, Susan.  “Slaughterhouse-Five: A Viewer’s Guide.”  Media and Methods (1972): 27-33.
  • Rose, Ellen Cronan.  “It’s All a Joke: Science Fiction in Kurt Vonnegut’s The Sirens of Titan.”  Literature and Psychology 29 (1979): 160-68.
  • Rovit, Earl.  “Some Shapes in Recent American Fiction.”  Contemporary Literature (1974): 550-65.
  • Rubens, Philip M. “Names in Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle.” Notes on Contemporary Literature 8.1 (1978): 7.
  •                   .  “Nothing’s Ever Final: Vonnegut’s Concept of Time.”  College Literature 6 (1979): 64-72.
  • Sadler, Frank. “Par-A-Dise and Science.” West Georgia College Review 11 (1979): 38-43.
  • Samuels, Charles Thomas.  “Age of Vonnegut.”  New Republic 12 June 1971: 30-32.
  • Schatt, Stanley. “A Kurt Vonnegut Checklist.” Critique 12.3 (1971): 70-76.
  • ­                  .  “The Whale and the Cross: Vonnegut’s Jonah and Christ Figures.”  Southwest Review 56 (1971): 29-42.
  •                   .  “The World of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.”  Critique 12.3 (1971): 54-69.
  • Scholes, Robert.  “‘Mithridates, he died old’: Black Humor and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.” The Sounder Few: Essays from the Hollins Critic. Eds. R.H.W. Dillard, George Garrett and John R. Moore. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1971. 173-93.
  •                   .  “Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle and Mother Night.” Fabulation and Metafiction. Urbana, IL: U of Illinois P, 1979. 156-62.
  • Scholl, Peter A.  “Vonnegut’s Attack upon Christiandom.”  Christianity and Literature 22.1 (1972): 5-11.
  • Schriber, Mary Sue.  “Bringing Chaos to Order: The Novel Tradition and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.”  Genre 10 (1977): 283-97.
  •                   .  “You’ve Come a Long Way, Babbitt! From Zenith to Ilium.”  Twentieth Century Literature 17.2 (1971): 101-6.
  • Schultz, Max F.  “The Unconfirmed Thesis: Kurt Vonnegut, Black Humor, and Contemporary Art.”  Critique 12.3 (1971): 5-28.
  • Seelye, John.  “What the Kids Are Reading.”  New Republic 17 Oct. 1970: 23-6.
  • Shaw, Patrick W. “The Excrement Festival: Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five.” Scholia Satyrica 2.3 (1976): 3-11.
  • St. Germain, Amos. “Breakfast of Champions: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Is Still on the Case.” Proceedings of the Fifth National Convention of the Popular Culture Association, St. Louis, Missouri, March 20-22, 1975. Ed. Michael T. Marsden. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State U Popular P, 1975. 233-43.
  • Todd, Richard.  “Breakfast of Champions: This Novel Contains More than Twice Your Daily Requirement of Irony.”  Atlantic May 1973: 105-9.
  • Trachtenberg, Stanley. “Vonnegut’s Cradle: The Erosion of Comedy.” Michigan Quarterly Review 12 (1973): 66-71.
  • Uphaus, Robert W.  “Expected Meaning in Vonnegut’s Dead-End Fiction.”  Novel 8.2 (1975): 164-74.
  • Vanderwerken, David L. “Pilgrim’s Dilemma: Slaughterhouse-Five.” Research Studies 42 (1974): 147-52.
  • Vinograde, Ann C. “A Soviet Translation of Slaughterhouse-Five.” Russian Language Journal 93 (1972): 14-18.
  • “Vonnegut’s Gospel.”  Time 29 June 1970: 8.
  • Williams, Melvin G. “Designer’s Choice in Cat’s Cradle.” PBSA 73 (1979): 366.
  • Wolfe, G. K.  “Vonnegut and the Metaphor of Science Fiction: The Sirens of Titan.”  Journal of Popular Culture 5 (1972): 964-99.
  • Wood, Michael.  “Dancing in the Dark.”  New York Review of Books 31 May 1973: 23-5.
  • Wright, Moorhead.  “The Existential Adventurer and War: Three Case Studies from American Fiction.” American Thinking about Peace and War. Eds. Ken Booth and Moorhead Wright. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1978. 101-10.
  • Wymer, Thomas L. “The Swiftian Satire of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.” Voices for the Future: Essays on Major Science Fiction Writers. Ed. Thomas D. Clareson. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green U Popular P, 1976. 238-62.