TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gilbert McInnis
PY  - 2020
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781433174360
TI  - Kurt Vonnegut
T2  - Myth and Science in the Postmodern World
DO  - 10.3726/b16184
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1058662
N2  - Kurt Vonnegut: Myth and Science in the Postmodern World attempts to understand, in Vonnegut’s novels, how Darwin’s theory of evolution functions as a cosmogonic myth that is widely accepted in order to explain why the world is as it is and why things happen as they do, to provide a rationale for social customs and observances, and to establish the sanctions for the rules by which Vonnegut’s characters conduct their lives. Moreover, this study deals with how and why Kurt Vonnegut’s fiction represents the changing human image resulting from Darwinism. The book's theoretical approach is based primarily on ideas from myth criticism and complemented by treatises on evolution.
LA  - English
ER  -