Essays on Slaughterhouse Five

March 31, 1969, Kurt Vonnegut

Novel, Science Fiction, Satire, War story, Historical Fiction, Metafiction, Dark comedy, Time Travel Fiction

Billy Pilgrim, Kurt Vonnegut, Bernhard V. O’Hare, Mary O’Hare, Gerhard Müller, Roland Weary, Wild Bob, Paul Lazzaro, Edgar Derby, Valencia Merble, Tralfamadorians, Eliot Rosewater, Kilgore Trout, Howard W. Campbell, Jr., Werner Gluck, Montana Wildhack, Barbara Pilgrim, Bertram Copeland Rumfoord, Lily Rumfoord, Robert Pilgrim, Billy’s mother, Billy’s father

1. McGinnis, W. D. (1975). The Arbitrary Cycle of Slaughterhouse-Five: A Relation of Form to Theme. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 17(1), 55-67. (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00111619.1975.10690101?journalCode=vcrt20)
2. Kunze, P. C. (2012). For the Boys: Masculinity, Gray Comedy, and the Vietnam War in" Slaughterhouse-Five". Studies in American Humor, (26), 41-57. (https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/american-humor/article-abstract/doi/10.2307/23823831/309104/For-the-Boys-Masculinity-Gray-Comedy-and-the?redirectedFrom=PDF)
3. Jarvis, C. (2010). The Vietnamization of World War II in Slaughterhouse-Five and Gravity’s Rainbow. Contemporary Literary Criticism, 387. (https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CH1100120431&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=00913421&p=LitRC&sw=w&userGroupName=anon%7E45c8985f)
4. Jweid, A., Termizi, A. B. A., & Majeed, A. A. (2015). Postmodern narrative in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five. Journal of Foreign Languages, Cultures and Civilizations, 3(1), 72-78. (https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Postmodern-narrative-in-Kurt-Vonneguts-Jweid-Termizi/d21d25c0ae2a7a9e470f0adef4e2faa0ee1aceef)
5. Veix, D. B. (1975). Teaching a censored novel: Slaughterhouse five. The English Journal, 64(7), 25-33. (https://www.jstor.org/stable/815302)
6. Merrill, R., & Scholl, P. A. (1978). Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five: The requirements of chaos. Studies in American Fiction, 6(1), 65-76. (https://muse.jhu.edu/article/446395)
7. Kavalir, M. (2006). Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five: a functional grammar perspective. Acta Neophilologica, 39(1-2), 41-50. (https://journals.uni-lj.si/ActaNeophilologica/article/view/6195)
8. Rodríguez, F. C. (2016). Approaching the Scientific Method in Literary Studies: on the Notions of Framework and Method (and their Application to Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five). Miscelánea: A journal of english and american studies, (54), 33-50. (https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=5822331)