Kurt Vonnegut‟s Slaughterhouse-Five: A Postmodernist Study

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Hooti, Noorbakhsh Omrani, Vahid Fallah
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	This study tries to analyze Kurt Vonnegut’s "Slaughterhouse-Five" from a postmodernist point of view. The concepts used are mostly from a range of literary and psychological resources. Vonnegut applies some narrative techniques which closely match those of the postmodernist diegetic process. The narrative has a potentially representative content which opens one’s horizons toward new sources of meaning and conceptual interpretation. The focal point, in this study, is to examine the ontological level, stream of narration, fragmentation, parody and irony to see how tangibly these terms agree with the very context of the above-mentioned novel and to find out whether the purely abstract terms extracted from postmodernist theory can be concretized in a practical form. Furthermore, this study aims at scrutinizing in detail the frequency and the possibility of the postmodernist narrative elements in the very fabric and texture of fictional narrative in general.
Starting Page	816
Ending Page	822
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
DOI	10.4304/jltr.2.4.816-822
Volume Number	2
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://www.academypublication.com/issues/past/jltr/vol02/04/12.pdf
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.4304/jltr.2.4.816-822
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article