By making use of narratological theories of Gerard Genette,especially in terms of anachrony,this thesis studies the seemingly chaotic but systematic anachrony in Slaughterhouse-Five.It means to show that the superfici...By making use of narratological theories of Gerard Genette,especially in terms of anachrony,this thesis studies the seemingly chaotic but systematic anachrony in Slaughterhouse-Five.It means to show that the superficially chaotic structure and language of the novel are derived from the narrative techniques applied in Slaughterhouse-Five.展开更多
Kurt Vonnegut constructed a post-apocalyptic fantasy in Galápagos:after the extinction effects of technology abuse,war and ecological unbalance in the Capitalocene,the old human race cannot reproduce due to the p...Kurt Vonnegut constructed a post-apocalyptic fantasy in Galápagos:after the extinction effects of technology abuse,war and ecological unbalance in the Capitalocene,the old human race cannot reproduce due to the plague,while the new human race comes to an island by“Noah's Ark”and evolves into seal-like animals,returning to nature and living in harmony with other species;it contains a profound criticism of the Anthropocene and a post-human ecological imagination of life forms.Based on the framework of subversion-reconstruction-prospect of life community,this paper explores the construction path of post-human life community.Finally,it is pointed out that the essence of this construction is the nomadic strategy of escape and the fantasy of absolute de-territorialization,but it reveals the vision and value of reconstructing the life community.展开更多
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By making use of narratological theories of Gerard Genette,especially in terms of anachrony,this thesis studies the seemingly chaotic but systematic anachrony in Slaughterhouse-Five.It means to show that the superficially chaotic structure and language of the novel are derived from the narrative techniques applied in Slaughterhouse-Five.
文摘Kurt Vonnegut constructed a post-apocalyptic fantasy in Galápagos:after the extinction effects of technology abuse,war and ecological unbalance in the Capitalocene,the old human race cannot reproduce due to the plague,while the new human race comes to an island by“Noah's Ark”and evolves into seal-like animals,returning to nature and living in harmony with other species;it contains a profound criticism of the Anthropocene and a post-human ecological imagination of life forms.Based on the framework of subversion-reconstruction-prospect of life community,this paper explores the construction path of post-human life community.Finally,it is pointed out that the essence of this construction is the nomadic strategy of escape and the fantasy of absolute de-territorialization,but it reveals the vision and value of reconstructing the life community.
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.
