Foreword
Kurt Vonnegut
Introduction
WHAT TO DO WHEN A POOL-PAH IS YOUR ZAH-MAH-KI-BO
Kevin Alexander Boon
1. VONNEGUT THE ESSAYIST
Jerome Klinkowitz
2. VONNEGUT AND AESTHETIC HUMANSIM
David Andrews
3. QUANTUM LEAPS IN THE VONNEGUT MINDFIELD
Loree Rackstraw
4. VONNEGUT'S GOODBYE: KURT SENIOR, HEMINGWAY, AND KILGORE TROUT
Lawrence R. Broer
5. YOU CANNOT WIN, YOU CANNOT BREAK EVEN, YOU CANNOT GET OUT OF THE GAME: KURT VONNEGUT AND THE NOTION OF PROGRESS
Donald E. Morse
6. SCIENCE AND SENSIBILITY IN THE SHORT FICTION OF KURT VONNEGUT
Jeff Karon
7. KURT VONNEGUT: LUDIC LUDDITE
Hartley S. Spatt
8. NARRATIVE, SELF, AND MORALITY IN THE WRITING OF KURT VONNEGUT
Bill Gholson
9. APOCALYPTIC GRUMBLING: POSTMODERN HUMANISM IN THE WORK OF
KURT VONNEGUT
Todd F. Davis
10. VONNEGUT FILMS
Kevin Alexander Boon and David Pringle
List of Contributors
Index