Posthumanism in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut

Matter That Complains So
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-85855-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 521 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture

Posthumanism in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut: Matter That Complains So re-examines the prevailing critical consensus that Kurt Vonnegut was a humanist writer. While more difficult elements of his work have often been the subject of scholarly attention, the tendency amongst critics writing on Vonnegut is to disavow them, or to subsume them within a liberal humanist framework. When Vonnegut’s work is read from a posthumanist perspective, however, the productive paradoxes of his work are more fully realised. Drawing on New Materialist, Eco-Critical and Systems Theory methodologies, this book highlights posthumanist themes in six of Vonnegut’s most famous novels, and emphasises the ways in which Vonnegut troubles human/non-human, natural/artificial, and material/discursive hierarchical binaries

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hicks, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Humor
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Section One: Comic Material

Chapter One: Cat’s Cradle: The Life and Times of Ice-nine

Chapter Two: Breakfast of Champions: Rebirth Suspended

Section Two: Environment and Evolution

Chapter Three: Mother Night: A Nation of Two

Chapter Four: Galapagos: Writing on Air

Section Three: Space and Time

Chapter Five: The Sirens of Titan: Matter That Complains So

Chapter Six: Slaughterhouse-Five: "Poo-tee-weet?"

Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew John Hicks completed his undergraduate degree at Royal Holloway University of London, his MA at the University of Exeter, and his PhD at the University of Bristol, UK. His work focuses on American and Postmodern Literature and Posthumanist Critical Theory. He currently resides in Exeter, UK.