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UNINA9910778984903321 |
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Autore |
Broer Lawrence R |
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Titolo |
Sanity plea [[electronic resource] ] : schizophrenia in the novels of Kurt Vonnegut / / Lawrence R. Broer |
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Tuscaloosa, AL, : University of Alabama Press, 1994 |
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ISBN |
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0-8173-8357-3 |
0-585-24995-4 |
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Edizione |
[Rev. ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (259 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Mental illness in literature |
Schizophrenia in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-229) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Madness in a Modern Mode; Part I: The Struggle; 1. Player Piano: A Looney Tune for the Masses; 2. Sirens of Titan: Though This Be Madness, Yet There Is Method in It; 3. Mother Night: Nations of Lunatics; 4. Cat's Cradle: Jonah and the Whale; 5. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater: The Saga of Vonnegut's Sanest Lunatic; 6. Slaughterhouse-Five: Pilgrim's Progress; 7. Breakfast of Champions: Spiritual Crossroads; Part II: Resolution: The Second Fifty Years; 8. Slapstick: The Meaning of the Dizygotic Twins; 9. Jailbird: The Madness of RAMJAC |
10. Deadeye Dick: The Resolution of Vonnegut's Creative Schizophrenia11. Galápagos: Oedipus at Galápagos; 12. Bluebeard: Redemption and the Unwavering Light; 13. Hartke's Hearing: Vonnegut's Heroes on Trial; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In this revised edition of a volume originally published in 1989, Lawrence Broer extends his comprehensive critique of the body of writing by Kurt Vonnegut. Broer offers a broad psychoanalytic study of Vonnegut's works from Player Piano to Hocus Pocus, taking a decisively new approach to the work of one of America's most important, yet often misinterpreted writers. A compelling and original analysis, Sanity Plea, explores how Vonnegut incorporates his personal experiences into an art that is not defeatist, but rather creatively therapeutic and |
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