A textual analysis of Kurt Vonnegut’s Timequake shows that its postmodern features can be illustrated in the light of Francois Lyotard’s metanarrative theory and Linda Hutcheon’s historiographic metafiction.Even th...A textual analysis of Kurt Vonnegut’s Timequake shows that its postmodern features can be illustrated in the light of Francois Lyotard’s metanarrative theory and Linda Hutcheon’s historiographic metafiction.Even though Timequake has left on readers an impression of fragmentary and chaotic narration and thereby may be accused of being intentionally misleading and meaningless,we can still probe the underlying meaning of the fiction and find it,at least part of it,to be a unity of incredulity to metanarratives and historiographic metafiction.展开更多
文摘A textual analysis of Kurt Vonnegut’s Timequake shows that its postmodern features can be illustrated in the light of Francois Lyotard’s metanarrative theory and Linda Hutcheon’s historiographic metafiction.Even though Timequake has left on readers an impression of fragmentary and chaotic narration and thereby may be accused of being intentionally misleading and meaningless,we can still probe the underlying meaning of the fiction and find it,at least part of it,to be a unity of incredulity to metanarratives and historiographic metafiction.
