Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-344) and index.

"Works by Kurt Vonnegut": p. 341-342.

On Slaughterhouse-five / Leonard Mustazza -- Biography of Kurt Vonnegut / Peter J. Reed -- The Paris review perspective / Sarah Fay for The Paris review -- The critical reception of Slaughterhouse-five / Jerome Klinkowitz -- Temporal cohesion and disorientation in Slaughterhouse-five: a chronicle of form cuts and transitional devices in the novel / Kevin Alexander Boon -- "The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true": negotiating the reality of World War II in Slaughterhouse-five and Catch-22 / David Simmons -- The Vietnamization of World War II in Slaughterhouse-five and Gravity's rainbow / Christina Jarvis -- Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five and the fiction of atrocity / Donald J. Greiner -- Slaughterhouse-five: novel and film / Joyce Nelson -- Slaughterhouse-five: time out of joint / Arnold Edelstein -- The arbitrary cycle of Slaughterhouse-five: a relation of form to theme / Wayne D. McGinnis -- The ironic Christ figure in Slaughterhouse-five / Dolores K. Gros Louis -- Slaughterhouse-five: Kurt Vonnegut's anti-memoirs / Maurice J. O'Sullivan, Jr. -- The "new reality" of Slaughterhouse-five / James Lundquist -- Slaughterhouse-five and the comforts of indifference / C. Barry Chabot-- "This lousy little book": the genesis and development of Slaughterhouse-five as revealed in chapter one / T. J. Matheson -- Adam and Eve in the golden depths: Edenic madness in Slaughterhouse-five / Leonard Mustazza -- Slaughterhouse-five / William Rodney Allen -- Vonnegut as messenger: Slaughterhouse-five / Donald E. Morse -- Slaughterhouse-five: existentialist themes elaborated in a postmodern way / Hans van Stralen -- Diagnosing Billy Pilgrim: a psychiatric approach to Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five / Susanne Vees-Gulani -- Speaking personally: Slaughterhouse-five and the essays / Jerome Klinkowitz.