Introduction 1
Chapter One Transcending the Void 13
Ⅰ ST:An Inward Call 19
Ⅱ CC:A Free Play of Artistic Imagination 26
Chapter Two Between Fiction and Life 34
Ⅰ CC:the Juxtaposition of the World of Art and the World of Science 41
Ⅱ SF:Tralfamadore,Billy Pilgrim and Kurt Vonnegut 55
Chapter Three A Theory of Art 76
Ⅰ Art as Restructuring Imagination 88
Ⅱ BC:Art as a Cultural Force 112
Ⅲ Bluebeard:Questing for an Aesthetic Approach 139
Chapter Four A Sense of Crisis 165
Conclusion 192
Lists of Works Cited 199
Vonnegut Chronology 203