The Modes of Vonnegut's Fiction

Mellard, James M. "The Modes of Vonnegut's Fiction: Or, Player Piano Ousts Mechanical Bride and The Sirens of Titan Invade The Gutenberg Galaxy." Ch. 12 of The Vonnegut Statement (q.v. this Category).

The humanization of machines and the mechanization of humans in Player Piano, Sirens, and contemporary industrial society. Relates Player Piano to the themes of "mechanics and sex" analyzed in Marshall McLuhan's The Mechanical Bride (1951).

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