Kurt Vonnegut: Myth and Science in the Postmodern World

ISBN-13: 9781433174353 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 184 str.

Gilbert McInnis

Opis

The book attempts to understand, in Vonnegut's novels, how Darwin's theory of evolution functions as a cosmogonic myth.

Spis treści

Copyright Acknowledgments - Acknowledgments - Introduction - Chapter One: Darwinism, Social Darwinism, and Mythology - Mythology and Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection in Galápagos - The Principles of an Evolutionary Mythology in Galápagos - The Sirens of Titan: Darwin, Einstein, and the Cosmological Connection - Sirens of Titan: Quantum Mechanics, Einstein, and the In-Complete Story - Slaughterhouse-Five: Einstein, Natural Selection and the Unified Story - Nazi Mythology and Totalitarian Minds in Mother Night - Adapting to the Evolutionary Mythology in Mother Night - The Myth of the Two Monsters in Breakfast of Champions - Evolutionary Mythology in the Writings of Kurt Vonnegut.

O autorze

Gilbert McInnis earned his Ph.D in English literature at Université Laval in 2007. He has contributed to Bloom's Modern Critical Views: Kurt Vonnegut-New Edition (2008) and contributed to Kurt Vonnegut: Critical Insights (Ed. Robert T. Tally Jr., 2013). He is currently serving as Assistant Professor on the Tataskweyak Cree Nation in Manitoba, Canada.