Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle

A critical overview of the work features the writings of Terry Southern, William S. Doxey, Jerome Klinkowitz, Richard Giannone, John L. Simons, James Lundquist, and other scholars.

– After the bomb, Dad came up with ice / Terry Southern
– Vonnegut’s Cat’s cradle / William S. Doxey
– The private person as public figure / Jerome Klinkowitz
– Cat’s cradle / Richard Giannone
– Tangled up in you : a playful reading of Cat’s cradle / John L. Simons
– From formula toward experiment : Cat’s cradle and God bless you, Mr. Rosewater / Jerome Klinkowitz
– Playful genesis and dark revelation in Cat’s cradle / Leonard Mustazza
– Bokononism as a structure of ironies / Zoltan Ab di-Nagy
– Mother night, Cat’s cradle, and The crimes of our time / Jerome Klinkowitz
– Vonnegut’s invented religions as sense-making systems / Peter Freese
– Icy solitude : magic and violence in Macondo and San Lorenzo / Wendy B. Faris
– Vonnegut’s cosmos / David H. Goldsmith
– Cosmic irony / James Lundquist
– Cat’s cradle : Jonah and the whale / Lawrence R. Broer
– Hurting ’til it laughs : the painful-comic science fiction stories of Kurt Vonnegut / Peter J. Reed
– The paradox of “awareness” and language in Vonnegut’s fiction / Loree Rackstraw.