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Fiction and Reality in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Nimer, Abdalhadi Jweid, Abu Termizi, Arbaayah Binti Ali |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | This article demonstrates how Kurt Vonnegut experiments with the narrative structure of his novel Slaughterhouse-Five. The study focuses on Vonnegut's experimentation which assents to postmodern innovative virtuosity. On the outset of postmodernism, two critical issues have been raised. That is, the literature of exhaustion and the literature of replenishment dominating modern literature. Accordingly, this study explores Vonnegut's critique of literary exhaustion prevailing modernism's exhausted literary forms in order to provide them with permanent literary replenishment. Vonnegut accomplishes his critique through manipulating the novel's plot, narrator, and character's discourse. It will be argued that Vonnegut mixes real experiences with fictional accounts. For this reason, self-reflexive metafiction being discussed conflates fictional experimental forms with ideological critique which attests to its fictionality in the name of replenishing manipulation. The critique is oftentimes utilized in order to proclaim a literary complex relation which lies between the author and the reader. The central differentiation being made, then, is that accurately postmodern metafiction and what might be considered therapeutic experimentation in a self-justifying manner. Thus, metafiction does not formulate the beginning of new genre signifiers. Rather, it is a beginning of ideological dialogic fiction between the text and the world. The analysis of the novel's plot will rely on Patricia Waugh's self-reflexive metafictional |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://rjelal.com/3.1.15/130-141%20ABDALHADI.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
