Journal and Book Articles, 1980 – 1989

  • Abádi-Nagy, Zoltán. “An Original Look at ‘Origins’: Bokononism.” The Origins and Originality of American Culture. Ed. Tibor Frank. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1984. 601-8.
  • Alsen, Eberhard. “Vonnegut’s Comedy of Errors.” Transition 82/83 (Spring 1983): 28-36.
  • Ancone, Frank. “Kurt Vonnegut and the Great Twain Robbery.” Notes on Contemporary Literature 13.4 (1983): 6-7.
  • Au, Bobbye G. “Contemporary Novels: A Reflection of Contemporary Culture.” Modern American Cultural Criticism. Ed. Mark Johnson. Warrensburg: Central Missouri State U, 1983. 99-104.
  • Berryman, Charles.  “After the Fall: Kurt Vonnegut.”  Critique 26 (1985): 96-102.
  • Blackford, Russell.  “The Definition of Love: Kurt Vonnegut’s Slapstick.”  Science Fiction 2 (1980): 208-28.
  •                   .  “Physics and Fantasy: Scientific Mysticism, Kurt Vonnegut, and Gravity’s Rainbow.”  Journal of Popular Culture 19 (1985): 35-44.
  • Broer, Lawrence.  “Kurt Vonnegut vs. Deadeye Dick: The Resolution of Vonnegut’s Creative Schizophrenia.” Spectrum of the Fantastic. Ed. Donald Palumbo. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1988. 95-102.
  •                   .  “Pilgrim’s Progress: Is Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Winning His War with Machines?” Clockwork Worlds: Mechanized Environments in Science Fiction. Eds. Richard D. Erlich and Thomas P. Dunn. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1983. 137-61.
  • Brophy, Elizabeth. “Vonnegut’s Bird Language in Slaughterhouse-Five.” NMAL 4 (1980): Item 15.
  • Burlui, Irina. “Reality and Fiction in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.” Analele Stiintifice ale Universitatii ‘Al. I. Cuza’ din Iasi (Serie noua), e. Lingvistica 29 (1983): 77-82.
  • Chabot, C. Barry.  “Slaughterhouse-Five and the Comforts of Indifference.”  Essays in Literature 8.1 (1981): 45-51.
  • Cook, Kenneth. “What’s So Damn Funny?: Grim Humor in The Mysterious Stranger and Cat’s Cradle.” Publications of the Missouri Philological Association 7 (1982): 48-55.
  • Cooley, John. “The Garden in the Machine: Three Postmodern Pastorals.” Michigan Academician 13.4 (1981): 405-20.
  • _____.  “Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.” Savages and Naturals: Black Portraits by White Writers. Newark, NJ: U of Delaware P, 1982. 161-73.
  • Cowan, S. A.  “Track of the Hound: Ancestors of Kazak in The Sirens of Titan.”  Extrapolation 24 (1984): 280-87.
  • Cunningham, Valentine. “The Dilemmas of a Liberal Humanist.” (London) Times Literary Supplement 4081 (19 June 1981): 692.
  • Elkins, Charles L. “Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-.” Science Fiction Writers: Critical Studies of the Major Authors from the Early Nineteenth Century to the Present Day. Ed. Everett Franklin Bleiler. New York: Scribner’s, 1982. 551-61.
  • Faris, Wendy B. “Magic and Violence in Macondo and San Lorenzo.” Latin American Literary Review 13.25 (1985): 44-54.
  • Fiene, Donald M.  “Elements of Dostoevsky in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut.”  Dostoevsky Studies 2 (1981): 129-42.
  •                   . “Kurt Vonnegut in the USSR: A Bibliography.” Bulletin of Bibliography 45.4 (1988): 223-32.
  • Fischer, Lucy. “Slapstick: From Laurel and Hardy to Vonnegut.” Purdue University Fifth Annual Conference on Film. Ed. Maud Walther. West Lafayette, IN: Dept. of Foreign Langs. & Lits., Purdue U, 1980. 111-6.
  • Freese, Peter. “Kurt Vonnegut: Cat’s Cradle (1963).” Die Utopie in der angloamerikanischen Literatur: Interpretationen. Eds. Hartmut Heuermann and Bernd-Peter Lange. Düsseldorf: Bagel, 1984. 283-309.
  •                   . “Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., The Sirens of Titan (1959).” Der Science-Fiction-Roman in der Angloamerikanischen Literatur: Interpretationen. Ed. Hartmut Heuermann. Düsseldorf: Bagel, 1986. 196-219.
  •                   . “Laurel and Hardy versus the Self-Reflexive Artefact: Vonnegut’s Novels between High Culture and Popular Culture.” High and Low in American Culture. Ed. Charlotte Kretzoi. Budapest: Dept. of Eng., Loránd Eötvös U, 1986. 19-38.
  • Giannone, Richard.  “Violence in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut.”  Thought 56 (1981): 58-76.
  • Gill, R. B.  “Bargaining in Good Faith: The Laughter of Vonnegut, Grass, and Kundera.”  Critique 25 (1984): 77-91.
  • Greer, Creed. “Kurt Vonnegut and the Character of Words.” Journal of Narrative Technique 19.3 (1989): 312-30.
  • Group, Robert. “Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.” Twentieth-Century American Science Fiction Writers Part II: M-Z. Eds. Cowart David and Thomas L. Wymer. Detroit, MI: Gale; 1981. 184-90.
  • Hoffman, Thomas P.  “The Theme of Mechanization in Player Piano.” Clockwork Worlds: Mechanized Environments in Science Fiction. Eds. Richard D. Erlich and Thomas P. Dunn. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1983. 125-35.
  • Hughes, David Y.  “The Ghost in the Machine: The Theme of Player Piano.” America as Utopia. Ed. Kenneth M. Roemer. New York: Burt Franklin, 1981. 108-14.
  • Hume, Kathyrn.  “The Heraclitan Cosmos of Kurt Vonnegut.”  Papers on Language and Literature 18.2 (1982): 208-24.
  •                   .  “Kurt Vonnegut and the Myths and Symbols of Meaning.”  Texas Studies in Literature and Language 24.4 (1982): 429-47.
  •                   .  “Vonnegut’s Self-Projections: Symbolic Characters and Symbolic Fictions.”  Journal of Narrative Technique 12.3 (1982): 177-90.
  • Humm, Peter. “Reading the Lines: Television and New Fiction.” Re-Reading English. Ed. Peter Widdowson. New York: Methuen, 1982. 193-206.
  • Hutcheon, Linda. “Historiographic Metafiction: Parody and the Intertextuality of History.” Intertextuality and Contemporary American Fiction. Eds. Patrick O’Donnell and Robert Davis. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1989. 3-32.
  • Jamosky, Edward and Jerome Klinkowitz.  “Kurt Vonnegut’s Three Mother Nights.”  Modern Fiction Studies 34 (1988): 216-9.
  • Klinkowitz, Jerome.  “Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.” Literary Disruptions: The Making of Post-Contemporary American Fiction. 2nd ed. Urbana, IL: U of Illinois P, 1980. 33-61, 232-305.
  • _____. “New American Fiction and Values.” Anglo-American Studies 2.2 (1982): 241-7.
  • Martin, Robert A. “Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse-Five.” Notes on Contemporary Literature 15.4 (1985): 8-10.
  • _____. “Slaughterhouse-Five: Vonnegut’s Domed Universe.” Notes on Contemporary Literature 17.2 (1987): 5-8.
  • Matheson, T. J.  “This Lousy Little Book: The Genesis and Development of Slaughterhouse-Five as Revealed in Chapter One.”  Studies in the Novel 16 (1984): 228-40.
  • Mathieson, Kenneth. “The Influence of Science Fiction in the Contemporary American Novel.” Science-Fiction Studies 12.1 [35] (1985): 22-32.
  • Mayer, Peter C. “Film, Ontology and the Structure of a Novel.” Literature/Film Quarterly 8 (1980): 204-8.
  • McConnell, Frank. “Stalking Papa’s Ghost: Hemingway’s Presence in Contemporary American Writing.” Ernest Hemingway: New Critical Essays. Ed. A. Robert Lee. Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble, 1983. 193-211.
  • McGrath, Michael J. Gargas.  “Kesey and Vonnegut: The Critique of Liberal Democracy in Contemporary Literature.” The Artist and the Political Vision. Eds. Benjamin R. Barber and Michael J. Gargas McGrath. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1982. 363-83.
  • Merrill, Robert. “John Gardner’s Grendel and the Interpretation of Modern Fables.” American Literature 56.2 (1984): 162-80.
  • Meyer, William H. E.  “Kurt Vonnegut: The Man with Nothing to Say.”  Critique 29 (1988): 95-101.
  • Mills, John. “Return of the Dazed Steer.” Queen’s Quarterly 88.1 (1981): 145-54.
  • Misra, Kalidas. “The American War Novel from World War II to Vietnam.” Indian Journal of American Studies 14.2 (1984): 73-80.
  • Mustazza, Leonard.  “A Darwinian Eden: Science and Myth in Kurt Vonnegut’s Galapagos.”  Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 3 (1991): 55-65.
  •                   .  “The Machine Within: Mechanization, Human Discontent, and the Genre of Vonnegut’s Player Piano.”  Papers on Language and Literature 25 (1989): 99-113.
  •                   .  “Vonnegut’s Tralfamadore and Milton’s Eden.”  Essays in Literature 13 (1986): 299-312.
  • Nadeau, Robert.  “Physics and Metaphysics in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.”  Mosaic 13.2 (1980): 37-47.
  • Nuwer, Hank. “A Skull Session with Kurt Vonnegut.” South Carolina Review 19.2 (1987): 2-23.
  • Orendain, Margarita R. “Confronting the Gods of Science: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. in ‘Welcome to the Monkey House’.” Saint Louis University Research Journal of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 18.1 (1987): 150-67.
  • Parshall, Peter F. “Meditations on the Philosophy of Tralfamadore: Kurt Vonnegut and George Roy Hill.” Literature Film Quarterly 15.1 (1987): 49-59.
  • Pinkster, Sanford.  “Fire and Ice: The Radical Cuteness of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.” Between Two Worlds: The American Novel in the 1960’s. Troy, NY: Whiston, 1980. 1-19.
  • Purdy, S. “The American Novel into Film? Nabokov and Vonnegut.” Purdue University Fifth Annual Conference on Film. Ed. Maud Walther. West Lafayette, IN: Dept. of Foreign Langs. & Lits., Purdue U, 1980. 130-38.
  • Rackstraw, Loree.  “Vonnegut Cosmos.”  North American Review 267 (1982): 63-7.
  • Rapf, Joanna E. “‘In the Beginning Was the Work’: Steve Geller on Slaughterhouse-Five.” Post Script 4.2 (1985): 19-31.
  • Reddy, K. Satyanaryana. “Structure of Consciousness in the Major Fiction of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.” Literary Endeavour 9.1-4 (1987-8): 91-6.
  • Reid, Susan. “Kurt Vonnegut and American Culture: Mechanization and Loneliness in Player Piano.” JASAT 15 (1984): 46-51.
  • Saltzman, Arthur M. “The Aesthetic of Doubt in Recent Fiction.” Denver Quarterly 20.1 (1985): 89-106.
  • Sandbank, Shimon. “Parable and Theme: Kafka and American Fiction.” Comparative Literature 37.3 (1985): 252-68.
  • Schöpp, Joseph C. “Slaughterhouse-Five: The Struggle with a Form That Fails.” Amerikastudien/American Studies 28.3 (1983): 335-45.
  • Segal, Howard P.  “Vonnegut’s Player Piano: An Ambiguous Technological Dystopia.” No Place Else: Explorations in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction. Eds. Eric S. Rabkin, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1983. 162-81.
  • Sheppeard, Sallye J. “Signposts in a Chaotic World: Naming Devices in Kurt Vonnegut’s Dresden Books.” McNeese Review 31 (1984-6): 14-22.
  • Sigman, Joseph.  “Science and Parody in Kurt Vonnegut’s The Sirens of Titan.”  Mosaic 19 (1986): 15-32.
  • Singh, Sukhbir. “The Politics of Madness in Kurt Vonnegut’s God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater.” Panjab University Research Bulletin (Arts) 17.1 (1986): 19-27.
  • Singh, Jaidev. “Self-Reflexivity in Contemporary Fiction: A Note on Ideology.” Creative Forum 1.4 (1988): 1-11.
  • Stableford, Brian M.  “Locked in the Slaughterhouse: The Novels of Kurt Vonnegut.” Essays on Six Science Fiction Authors. San Bernardino, CA: Borgo P, 1981. 15-23.
  • Townsend, Roy. “Eliot and Vonnegut: Modernism and Postmodernism?” Journal of English 16 (1988): 90-104.
  • Vanderbilt, Kermit.  “Kurt Vonnegut’s American Nightmares and Utopias.” The Utopian Vision: Seven Essays on the Quincentennial of Sir Thomas More. Ed. E. D. S. Sullivan. San Diego: San Diego State UP, 1983. 137-73.
  • Whitlark, James S. “Vonnegut’s Anthropology Thesis.” Literature and Anthropology. Eds. Philip Dennis and Wendell Aycock. Lubbock: Texas Tech UP, 1989. 77-86.
  • Wiedemann, Barbara. “American War Novels: Strategies for Survival.” War and Peace: Perspectives in the Nuclear Age. Eds. Ulrich Goebel and Otto Nelson. Lubbock: Texas Tech UP, 1988. 137-44.
  • Woodward, Robert H. “Dramatic License in Vonnegut’s ‘Who Am I This Time?’.” Notes on Contemporary Literature 12.1 (1982): 8-9.
  • Wymer, Thomas L.  “Machines and Meaning of Human in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.” Mechanical God: Machines in Science Fiction. Eds. Thomas P. Dunn and Richard D. Erlich. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1982. 41-52.
  • Ziegfield, Richard E.  “Kurt Vonnegut on Censorship and Moral Values.”  Modern Fiction Studies 26 (1980): 631-5.
  • Zins, Daniel L.  “Rescuing Science from Technocracy: Cat’s Cradle and the Play of Apocalypse.”  Science-Fiction Studies 13 (1986): 170-81.