Sanity plea [[electronic resource] ] : schizophrenia in the novels of Kurt Vonnegut / / Lawrence R. Broer

• Autore: Broer Lawrence R
• Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, AL, : University of Alabama Press, 1994
• Edizione: Rev. ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (259 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.54
• Soggetto topico: Mental illness in literature; Schizophrenia in literature
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-229) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 life-
• Titolo autorizzato: Sanity plea
• ISBN: 0-8173-8357-3; 0-585-24995-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778984903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II