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Deadeye Dick Study Guide

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by Kurt Vonnegut
About 6 pages (1,896 words)
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Literary Precedents

Vonnegut's most obvious literary precedents are his own works, but critics have compared his approach to writing to that of an improvising jazzman for whom plot and character are not as interesting as the sentence he is writing, just as the jazz musician cares about the song only as a means to.....

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Deadeye Dick from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.

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