Journal and Book Articles, 1990 – 1999

  • Alsen, Eberhard.  “Breakfast of Champions:  Kurt Vonnegut on the Nature of Man and God.”  Romantic Postmodernism in American Fiction.  Atlanta, GA:  Rodopi, 1996.  110-132.
  • Beidler, Phil. “Bad Business: Vietnam and Recent Mass-Market Fiction.” College English 54.1 (1992): 64-75.
  • Bergenholtz, Rita. “Food for Thought in Slaughterhouse-Five.” Thalia 18.1-2 (1998): 84-93.
  • Bland, Michael. “A Game of Black Humor in Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle.” Notes on Contemporary Literature 24.4 (1994): 8-9.
  • Boon, Kevin A. “The Problem with Pilgrim in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five.” Notes on Contemporary Literature 26.2 (1996): 8-10.
  • Broer, Lawrence R. “Images of the Shaman in the Works of Kurt Vonnegut.” Dionysus in Literature: Essays on Literary Madness. Ed. Branimir M. Rieger. Bowling Green, OH: Popular, 1994. 197-208.
  • Byun, Jong-min. “Some Aspects of Confucianism in Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle.” Journal of English Language and Literature 37.4 (1991): 973-81.
  • Collado Rodríguez, Francisco. “On Dreams and Nightmares: Reflections on American Dystopia in the Cyberspace Era.” Spanish Association for American Studies (SAAS): Century Ends, Crises and New Beginnings. Eds. María José Alvarez Maurín, Manuel Broncano Rodrígues, Camino Fernández Rabadán, and Cristina Garrigós González. León, Spain: Universidad de León, 1999. 73-80.
  • Coover, Robert. “Pre-Texts to Barthelme.” Review of Contemporary Fiction 11.2 (1991): 17-33.
  • Ferguson, Oliver W. “History and Story: Leon Trout’s Double Narrative in Galápagos.” Critique 40.3 (1999): 230-38.
  • Freese, Peter. “Kurt Vonnegut’s Jailbird: Recent American History and the Failure of the American Dream.” Freese, Peter. Amerikastudien/American Studies 44.1 (1999): 137-65.
  •                   . “Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five: Or, How to Storify an Atrocity.” Historiographic Metafiction in Modern American and Canadian Literature. Eds. Bernd Engler and Kurt Müller. Paderborn, Germany: Ferdinand Schöningh, 1994. 209-22.
  •                   . “Natural Selection with a Vengeance: Kurt Vonnegut’s Galápagos.” Amerikastudien/American Studies 36.3 (1991): 337-60.
  •                   . “Surviving the End: Apocalypse, Evolution, and Entropy in Bernard Malamud, Kurt Vonnegut, and Thomas Pynchon.” Critique 36.3 (1995): 163-76.
  • Han, Chun-koong. “Kurt Vonnegut’s Humanistic Pessimism.” Journal of English Language and Literature 41.2 (1995): 477-94.
  • Han, Eungoo. “Kurt Vonnegut’s Mother Night: Fiction and Life.” Journal of English Language and Literature 41.3 (1995): 741-60.
  • Hattenhauer, Darryl. “The Politics of Kurt Vonnegut’s ‘Harrison Bergeron’.” Studies in Short Fiction 35.4 (1998): 387-92.
  • Hearell, W. Dale. “Formative Pretense in Vonnegut’s Mother Night.” Publications of the Arkansas Philological Association 25.1 (1999): 31-9.
  •                   . “Vonnegut’s Changing Women.” Publications of the Arkansas Philological Association 22.2 (1996): 27-35.
  • Hearron, Tom. “The Theme of Guilt in Vonnegut’s Cataclysmic Novels.” The Nightmare Considered: Critical Essays on Nuclear War Literature. Ed. Nancy Anisfield. Bowling Green, OH: Popular, 1991. 186-92.
  • Hickenlooper, John. “Timequake, Princess Di and the Great Apocalypse.” Bloomsbury Review 18.1 (1998): 3.
  • Hou, Weirui. “From the Ladder to the Cobweb: Changes in the Structure of the Novel.” Wai guo yu/Journal of Foreign Languages 2.84 (1993): 15-21.
  • Hughes, Joseph J. “Echoes of Gilgamesh in Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions.” Publications of the Missouri Philological Association 16 (1991): 93-7.
  • Hume, Kathryn. “Vonnegut’s Melancholy.” Philological Quarterly 77.2 (1998): 221-38.
  • Klinkowitz, Jerome. “Kurt Vonnegut’s Ultimate.” The Nightmare Considered: Critical Essays on Nuclear War Literature. Ed. Nancy Anisfield. Bowling Green, OH: Popular, 1991. 193-8.
  •                   . “Slaughterhouse-Five: Fiction into Film.” Take Two: Adapting the Contemporary American Novel to Film. Ed. Barbara Lupack. Bowling Green, OH: Popular, 1994. 51-9.
  •                   . “Toward a New American Mainstream: John Updike and Kurt Vonnegut.” Traditions, Voices, and Dreams: The American Novel Since the 1960s. Eds. Melvin J. Friedman and Ben Siegel. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1995. 150-67.
  • Knorr, John Walter. “Technology, Angst, and Edenic Happiness in Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano and Slaughterhouse-Five.” The Image of Technology in Literature, the Media, and Society. Eds. Will Wright and Steve Kaplan. Pueblo, CO: Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, U of Southern Colorado, 1994. 99-104.
  • Kopper, Edward A., Jr. “Abstract Expressionism in Vonnegut’s Bluebeard.” Journal of Modern Literature 17.4 (1991): 583-4.
  • Lazar, Mary. “Sam Johnson on Grub Street, Early Science Fiction Pulps, and Vonnegut.” Extrapolation 32.3 (1991): 235-55.
  • Lee, Cremilda Toledo. “Fantasy and Reality in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five.” Journal of English Language and Literature 37.4 (1991): 983-91.
  • Lerate de Castro, Jesús. “The Narrative Function of Kilgore Trout and His Fictional Works in Slaughterhouse-Five.” Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses 7 (1994): 115-22.
  • Lupack, Barbara T. “Pilgrim’s Regress: Cinematic Narrative in Slaughterhouse-Five.” Connecticut Review 12.1 (1990): 15-27.
  • Merrill, Robert. “Kurt Vonnegut as a German-American.” Germany and German Thought in American Literature and Cultural Criticism. Ed. Peter Freese. Essen: Blaue Eule, 1990. 230-43.
  • Morse, Donald E. “Abjuring Rough Magic: Kurt Vonnegut’s Timequake.” New York Review of Science Fiction 10.10 [118] (1998): 1, 8-11.
  •                   . “Bringing Chaos to Order: Vonnegut Criticism at Century’s End.” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 10.4 [40] (1999): 395-408.
  •                   . “Kurt Vonnegut: The Antonio Gaudi of Fantastic Fiction.” Centennial Review 42.1 (1998): 173-83.
  •                   . “Kurt Vonnegut’s Jailbird and Deadeye Dick: Two Studies of Defeat.” Hungarian Studies in English 22 (1991): 109-19.
  •                   . “Thinking Intelligently about Science and Art: Kurt Vonnegut’s Galápagos and Bluebeard.” Extrapolation 38.4 (1997): 292-303.
  •                   . “‘Why Not You?’: Kurt Vonnegut’s Debt to the Book of Job.” Eger Journal of American Studies 1 (1993): 75-88.
  • Noguchi, Kenji. “Vonnegut’s Desperado Humor in Slaughterhouse-Five.” Studies in English Language and Literature 45 (1995): 1-15.
  • Rampton, David. “Into the Secret Chamber: Art and the Artist in Kurt Vonnegut’s Bluebeard.” Critique 35.1 (1993): 16-26.
  • Reed, Peter J. “Kurt Vonnegut.” American Novelists since World War II: Fourth Series. Eds. James R. Giles and Wanda H. Giles. Detroit, MI: Thomson Gale, 1995. 248-72.
  •                   . “Kurt Vonnegut: A Selected Bibliography, 1985-1992.” Bulletin of Bibliography 50.2 (1993): 123-8.
  •                   . “Kurt Vonnegut’s Fantastic Faces.” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 10.1 [37] (1998): 77-87.
  • Sánchez, Jesús Benito. “Pilgrimaging through Time: Puritan Pilgrims and Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five.” Spanish Association for American Studies (SAAS): Century Ends, Crises and New Beginnings. Eds. María José Alvarez Maurín, Manuel Broncano Rodrígues, Camino Fernández Rabadán, and Cristina Garrigós González. León, Spain: Universidad de León, 1999. 33-8.
  • Seed, David. “Mankind vs. Machines: The Technological Dystopia in Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano.” Impossibility Fiction: Alternativity, Extrapolation, Speculation. Eds. Derek Littlewood and Peter Stockwell. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi, 1996. 11-23.
  • Shaw, Patrick W. “Too Many Pilgrimages: Travel and Point of View in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five.” Conference of College Teachers of English Studies 58 (1993): 14-19.
  • Singh, Sukbir. “Bellow’s Seize the Day and Vonnegut’s Mother Night: An Intertextual Approach.” Indian Journal of American Studies 23.1 (1993): 100-06.
  • Stralen, Hans van. “Slaughterhouse-Five, Existentialist Themes Elaborated in a Postmodernist Way.” Neophilologus 79.1 (1995): 3-12.
  • Thorson, James L. “Kurt Vonnegut’s Cold War: The Short Stories of the Fifties.” Tangenten: Literatur & Geschichte. Eds. Martin Meyer, Gabriele Spengemann, and Wolf Kindermann. Münster, Germany: Lit, 1996. 102-15.
  • Tunnell, James R. “Kesey and Vonnegut: Preachers of Redemption.” Ed. George J. Searles. A Casebook on Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1992. 127-33.
  • Visconsi, Elliot. “Technological Signifiers and the Satire on Science in Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle.” The Image of Technology in Literature, the Media, and Society. Eds. Will Wright and Steve Kaplan. Pueblo, CO: Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, U of Southern Colorado, 1994. 114-6.
  • Watts, Philip. “Rewriting History: Céline and Kurt Vonnegut.” South Atlantic Quarterly 93.2 (1994): 265-78.
  • Woods, Tim. “Spectres of History: Ethics and Postmodern Fictions of Temporality.” Critical Ethics: Text, Theory and Responsibility. Eds. Dominic Rainsford and Tim Woods. New York: St. Martin’s, 1999. 105-21.