20th Century American Literature - Post WWII - Literary Criticism

The Vonnegut Effect

Name: The Vonnegut Effect
Author: Jerome Klinkowitz
ISBN: 9781611170078

by Jerome Klinkowitz

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Overview

Kurt Vonnegut is one of the few American writers since Mark Twain to have won and sustained a great popular acceptance while boldly introducing new themes and forms on the literary cutting edge. This is the "Vonnegut effect" that Jerome Klinkowitz finds unique among postmodernist authors. In this innovative study of the author's fiction, Klinkowitz examines the forces in American life that have made Vonnegut's works possible.

Synopsis

Kurt Vonnegut is the only American author to have won and sustained great popular acceptance, as opposed to mere critical and academic success, while embracing the more radical forms and themes of postmodern literature, says Klinkowitz (English, U. of Northern Iowa). He investigates his work chronologically as reflected by the social and critical contexts in which it has developed. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

About the Author, Jerome Klinkowitz

A professor of English and University Distinguished Scholar at the University of Northern Iowa. Jerome Klinkowitz is the author of more than forty books, including Vonnegut in Fact: The Public Spokesmanship of Personal Fiction and Kurt Vonnegut's America.