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A well written book. Enjoyed reading it.
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Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle
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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.
- 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.
258 pages, Paperback
First published June 15,2002
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258 pages, Paperback
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December 19, 2002 by Chelsea House Publications
- ISBN
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9780791071687
- ASIN
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0791071685
- Language
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English
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Harold Bloom was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. In 2017, Bloom was called "probably the most famous literary critic in the English-speaking world." After publishing his first book in 1959, Bloom wrote more than 50 books, including over 40 books of literary criticism, several books discussing religion, and one novel. He edited hundreds of anthologies concerning numerous literary and philosophical figures for the Chelsea House publishing firm. Bloom's books have been translated into more than 40 languages. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1995.
Bloom was a defender of the traditional Western canon at a time when literature departments were focusing on what he derided as the "school of resentment" (multiculturalists, feminists, Marxists, and others). He was educated at Yale University, the University of Cambridge, and Cornell University.
Bloom was a defender of the traditional Western canon at a time when literature departments were focusing on what he derided as the "school of resentment" (multiculturalists, feminists, Marxists, and others). He was educated at Yale University, the University of Cambridge, and Cornell University.
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Having recently re-read Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5 and now having re-read Cat's Cradle their similarities come to the forefront as both novel deal with a writer preparing to right a book on a mass slaughter in WWII. In Slaughterhouse 5 the writer is preparing to write a book about the firebombing of Dresden and in Cat's Cradle the writer is writing a book on the scientists families involved in the Manhattan Project. Though Slaughterhouse descends into a book within a book as it subsequently tells the story of a soldier who was in Dresden during the bombing and had become unstuck in time living his life out of sequence.
I was a great fan of Vonnegut as a teenager when I read everything he wrote up to that time, though have only read a book or two of his since the eighties. Going back to these two books I find that while I am not of fan of Vonnegut's underlying mixed-up philosophies, I am still of fan of his writing. I really enjoyed re-reading both of these book for their quirky humor and Vonnegut is really a master of quirky storytelling. Will have to find out how the rest of his works standup. Though I was surprised at how much of Slaughterhouse 5 I had remembered despite not reading it for almost 4 decades. Though I had forgot much of Cat's Cradle, though remembered Ice 9.
I was a great fan of Vonnegut as a teenager when I read everything he wrote up to that time, though have only read a book or two of his since the eighties. Going back to these two books I find that while I am not of fan of Vonnegut's underlying mixed-up philosophies, I am still of fan of his writing. I really enjoyed re-reading both of these book for their quirky humor and Vonnegut is really a master of quirky storytelling. Will have to find out how the rest of his works standup. Though I was surprised at how much of Slaughterhouse 5 I had remembered despite not reading it for almost 4 decades. Though I had forgot much of Cat's Cradle, though remembered Ice 9.
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Helen and I both don't know what to say about this book, but we both liked it. An interesting story and definitely a different feel than the only other Vonnegut book I have read (Slaughterhouse Five).
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A well written book. Enjoyed reading it.
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Very entertaining, funny and gritty. I found it interesting that most of the situations were timeless. Had I read this in the 70s, I would have not found its humor.
The ending, however, was a little bland. I'm sure Vonnegut would have said it was suppose to have been bland, but I wonder if it was just being lazy... which I'm sure Vonnegut would have said, he was suppose to be lazy. The point was that it was pointless, etc. So 60s (yawn) I'm sure it was cutting edge in the day.
Three stars for the rest of it.
The ending, however, was a little bland. I'm sure Vonnegut would have said it was suppose to have been bland, but I wonder if it was just being lazy... which I'm sure Vonnegut would have said, he was suppose to be lazy. The point was that it was pointless, etc. So 60s (yawn) I'm sure it was cutting edge in the day.
Three stars for the rest of it.
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Great to read an original story, with heavy sarcasm, entertaining characters by a super wordsmith. Chapter 4 is entitled 'A tentative tangling of tendrils'.
Lots of enjoyable anecdotes throughout an overall good, short and easy read.
Lots of enjoyable anecdotes throughout an overall good, short and easy read.
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What an interesting and fun trip! A great reflection of the absurdity of government and religion and innate human desires. I loved it.
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A well written book. Enjoyed reading it.
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