Journal and Book Articles, 2000 – 2009

  • Abele, Elizabeth.  “The Journey Home in Kurt Vonnegut’s World War II Novels.”  New Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut.  Ed. David Simmons.  New York:  Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
  • Baird, James. “Jeffers, Vonnegut, and Pynchon: Their Philosophies and Fates.” Jeffers Studies 4.1 (2000): 17-28.
  • Cacicedo, Alberto. “‘You Must Remember This’: Trauma and Memory in Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse-Five.” Critique 46.4 (2005): 357-68.
  • Cordle, Daniel. “Changing of the Old Guard: Time Travel and Literary Technique in the Work of Kurt Vonnegut.” Yearbook of English Studies 30 (2000): 166-76.
  • Davis, Todd F. “Crusading for the Family: Kurt Vonnegut’s Ethics of Familial Community.” Reading the Family Dance: Family Systems Therapy and Literary Study. Eds. John V. Knapp and Kenneth Womack. Newark: U of Delaware P, 2003. 221-35.
  • _____. “Kurt Vonnegut.” Postmodernism: The Key Figures. Eds. Hans Bertens and Joseph Natoli. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002. 315-20.
  • Doloff, Steven. “Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle.” Explicator 63.1 (2004): 56-7.
  • Fairfield, James C. “Slaughterhouse-Five: A Selected Guide to Scholarship and Resources, 1987-1999.” Bulletin of Bibliography 58.1 (2001): 49-57.
  • Farrell, Susan.  “Art, Domesticity, and Vonnegut’s Women.”  New Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut.  Ed. David Simmons.  New York:  Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
  • Foran, Donna. “Kurt Vonnegut’s Search for Soul.” Issues in Travel Writing: Empire, Spectacle, and Displacement. Ed. Kristi Siegel. New York: Peter Lang; 2002. 179-96.
  • Freese, Peter. “Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano; or, ‘Would You Ask EPICAC What People Are For?’” Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 27.2 (2002): 123-59.
  • Fumika, Nagano. “Surviving the Perpetual Winter: The Role of the Little Boy in Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle.” Journal of the American Literature Society of Japan 2 (2003): 73-90.
  • Giarelli, James M. “On the Metaphysics of Presence.” Philosophy of Education (2000): 11-14.
  • Glover, Chris.  “‘Somewhere in There Was Springtime:  Kurt Vonnegut, His Apocalypses, and His Post-9/11 Heirs.”  New Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut.  Ed. David Simmons.  New York:  Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
  • Guyer, Ruth Levy. “Mind’s Eye: Evolving Stories.” Potomac Review 8.2 [30] (2001): 108-10.
  • Jarvis, Christina. “The Vietnamization of World War II in Slaughterhouse-Five and Gravity’s Rainbow.” War, Literature, and the Arts 15.1-2 (2003): 95-117.
  • Jowett, Lorna.  “Folding Time:  History, Subjectivity, and Intimacy in Vonnegut.”  New Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut.  Ed. David Simmons.  New York:  Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
  • Magome, Kiyoko. “The Player Piano and Musico-Cybernetic Science Fiction between the 1950s and the 1980s: Kurt Vonnegut and Philip K. Dick.” Extrapolation 45.4 (2004): 370-87.
  • Marvin, Tom. “‘Who Am I This Time?’: Kurt Vonnegut and the Film Mother Night.” Literature Film Quarterly 31.3 (2003): 231-6.
  • McCammack, Brian. “A Fading Old Left Vision: Gospel-Inspired Socialism in Vonnegut’s Rosewater.” The Midwest Quarterly 49.2 (2008): 161-78.
  • McCoppin, Rachel.  “‘God Damn It, You’ve Got to Be Kind’:  War and Altruism in the Works of Kurt Vonnegut.”  New Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut.  Ed. David Simmons.  New York:  Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
  • McHenry, Robert. “If Vonnegut Is Literature, What Is Jacqueline Susann?” Chronicle of Higher Education 48.30 (5 Apr. 2002): B5.
  • McInnis, Gilbert. “Evolutionary Mythology in the Writings of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 46.4 (2005): 383-96.
  • _____. “Nazis, Mythology, and Totalitarian Minds in Kurt Vonnegut’s Mother Night.”  Mythlore, vol. 26, no. 1, 2007, pp. 185-198.
  • Miller, Gavin. “Literary Narrative as Soteriology in the Work of Kurt Vonnegut and Alasdair Gray.” Journal of Narrative Theory 31.3 (2001): 299-323.
  • Morse, Donald E. “The ‘Black Frost’ Reception of Kurt Vonnegut’s Fantastic Novel Breakfast of Champions.” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 11.2 [42] (2000): 143-53.
  •                   . “Sensational Implications: Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano (1952).” AnaChronist (2000): 303-14.
  • Pascual, Mónica Calvo. “Kurt Vonnegut’s The Sirens of Titan: Human Will in a Newtonian Narrative Gone Chaotic.” Miscelánea 24 (2001): 53-63.
  • Ren, Xiaojin. “Timequake: A Unity of Incredulity to Metanarratives and Historiographic Metafiction.” Foreign Literature Studies/Wai Guo Wen Xue Yan Jiu 6.116 (2005): 48-55, 171-2.
  • Simpson, Josh. “‘This Promising of Great Secrets’: Literature, Ideas, and the (Re)Invention of Reality in Kurt Vonnegut’s God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Slaughterhouse-Five, and Breakfast of Champions Or ‘Fantasies of an Impossibly Hospitable World’: Science Fiction and Madness in Vonnegut’s Troutean Trilogy.” Critique 45.3 (2004): 261-71.
  • Szarycz, Ireneusz. “Sinyavsky and Vonnegut: The Themes of Displacement and Alienation.” Twentieth-Century Russian Literature. Eds. Karen L. Ryan and Barry P. Scherr. New York, St. Martin’s P, 2000. 164-79.
  • Tamás, Bényei. “Leakings: Reappropriating Science Fiction – The Case of Kurt Vonnegut.” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 11.4 [44] (2001): 432-53.
  • Tew, Philip.  “Kurt Vonnegut’s Mother Night (1961):  Howard W. Campbell, Jr. and the Banalities of Evil.”  New Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut.  Ed. David Simmons.  New York:  Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
  • Thomas, Paul L.  “‘No Damn Cat and No Damn Cradle:  The Fundamental Flaws in Fundamentalism According to Vonnegut.”  New Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut.  Ed. David Simmons.  New York:  Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
  • Vandersee, Charles. “Naming in Novelizing the Nation: Intertextualities of Ellison, Vonnegut, and Kingston.” Onoma 38 (2003): 305-24.
  • Vees-Gulani, Susanne. “Diagnosing Billy Pilgrim: A Psychiatric Approach to Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five.” Critique 44.2 (2003): 175-84.
  • Zindziuviene, Ingrida. “The Author-Reader Educational Dialogue: Kurt Vonnegut’s Timequake (1997) from the 21st Century Reader’s Perspective.” British and American Studies 10 (2004): 175-85.