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Kurt Vonnegut and the American Novel - A Postmodern Iconography (Paperback, Nippod)
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Kurt Vonnegut and the American Novel - A Postmodern Iconography (Paperback, Nippod)
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The novels of Kurt Vonnegut depict a profoundly absurd and
distinctly postmodern world. But in this critical study, Robert
Tally argues that Vonnegut himself is actually a modernist, who is
less interested in indulging in the free play of signifiers than in
attempting to construct a model that could encompass the American
experience at the end of the twentieth century. As a modernist
wrestling with a postmodern condition, Vonnegut makes use of
diverse and sometimes eccentric narrative techniques (such as
metafiction, collage, and temporal slippages) to project a
comprehensive vision of life in the United States. Vonnegut's
novels thus become experiments in making sense of the radical
transformations of self and society during that curious, unstable
period called, perhaps ironically, the 'American Century.' An
untimely figure, Vonnegut develops a postmodern iconography of
American civilization while simultaneously acknowledging the
impossibility of a truly comprehensive representation.
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