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The Critical Reception of Kurt Vonnegut
Author(s) -
Freese Peter
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
literature compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.158
H-Index - 4
ISSN - 1741-4113
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2011.00862.x
Subject(s) - narrative , literature , psychology , psychoanalysis , art
This article traces the critical reception of Kurt Vonnegut’s novels from the earliest reviews that detected the thematic inventiveness and narrative innovations of a wrongly neglected science‐fiction hack to the recent monographs that analyze Vonnegut’s œuvre as a major contribution to 20th‐century U.S. fiction.