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Author Ciarán Kavanagh

Ciarán Kavanagh

Ciarán Kavanagh won the 2015 WTM Riches Essay Prize as a MA student in University College Cork, where he is currently writing his PhD on “Reading Postmodernism: Ambiguity, Instability and the Changing Role of the Modern Reader.”

Diagnosing Kurt Vonnegut: A Response to Susanne Vees-Gulani on the Subject of Slaughterhouse-Five

Ciarán Kavanagh
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Winner of the 2015 WTM Riches Essay Prize   In “Diagnosing Billy Pilgrim: A Psychiatric Approach to Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five,” Susanne Vees-Gulani proffers a systematic analysis of the explo... Read More...
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