LEADER 02545cam a2200385Ia 4500001 77573 005 20240621152822.0 008 021217s1999 xx r b 000 0 eng d 035 (OCoLC)ocm51235780 035 77573 049 LHMA 040 LHM |beng |erda |cLHM 090 PS3572.O5 |bM63 1999 100 1 Sideris, Jeremy Brian, |d1971- 245 10 Through black humor : |ba source and impact study of Kurt Vonnegut's Mother night / |cby Jeremy Brian Sideris. 264 1 [Place of publication not identified] : |b[publisher not identified], |c1999. 300 vi, 70 pages 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 502 Thesis (M.A.)--Angelo State University, 1999. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 60-69). 520 Black Humor, a unique literary genre, is a dialectical medium based on the presentation of unabated comic and tragic irony. The basic nature of Black Humor is constant. As a specific genre, Black Humor exists with its own set of definitive rules and traditions. These rules and traditions have not significantly changed from Black Humor's origins as a form of Jewish/German literature known as Galgenhumor ("Gallows Humor") to its ascendency in the cynical pop literature of the 1960s and early 1970s. Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night (1961) has long been considered a seminal example of Black Humor fiction by critics such as Jerome Klinkowitz and Bruce Jay Friedman. Mother Night epitomizes the cynical Black Humor tradition, revealing the genre to be formulaic in its attempts to question morality, the nature of complicity, and the role of satire. This research analyzes Mother Night as an example of Black Humor's basic tenets used to deride the societal norms and mores that lead to human catastrophes such as the Holocaust. 530 Electronic version(s) |bavailable internally at USHMM. 533 Photocopy. |bAnn Arbor, Mich. : |cUMI Dissertation Services, |d2002. |e23 cm. 590 Dissertations and Theses 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 600 10 Vonnegut, Kurt. |tMother night. 655 7 Black humor. |2lcgft 856 41 |uhttp://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=734301141&sid=2&Fmt=6&clientId=54617&RQT=309&VName=PQD |zElectronic version from ProQuest 956 41 |u http://dc.ushmm.org/library/bib77573/1393934.pdf |z Hosted by USHMM. 994 X0 |bLHM 852 0 |bstacks |hPS3572.O5 |iM63 1999 852 |bwww 852 0 |bebook