Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-181) and index
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A postmodern iconography -- Misanthropic humanism : Player piano and The sirens of Titan -- Anxiety and the jargon of authenticity : Mother night -- The dialectic of American enlightenment : Cat's cradle and God bless you, Mr. Rosewater -- Eternal returns, or, Tralfamadorian ethics : Slaughterhouse five -- Anti-Oedipus of the heartland : Breakfast of champions -- Imaginary communities, or, the ends of the political : Slapstick and Jailbird -- Abstract idealism : Deadeye Dick and Bluebeard -- Apocalypse in the optative mood : Galápagos -- Twilight of the icons : Hocus pocus and Timequake