This paper aims at analyzing postmodern narrative methods of metafiction and sci-fi in Slaughterhouse-Five, and ways of delivering and supporting the messages of the writer. Kurt Vonnegut adopts narrative methods of metafiction and sci-fi in his works. While metafiction helps people overcome their identity crisis in a rapidly developing modern society, sci-fi helps people look back on themselves and refocus on current situations when Realism and Modernism are no longer accounted for modern phenomena. Vonnegut deals with two crucial problems associated with novel writing and delivering his message in Slaughterhouse-Five by using techniques of metafiction and sci-fi. Those two postmodern techniques can be a way of describing an inhumane incident and making people look back on the absurdity of history and their society through fabrication and illusion, making them face and overcome the reality. In conclusion, postmodern narrative methods such as metafiction and sci-fi are good ways of describing the absurdity of our culture and society and are able to effectively deliver the message of humanity, reinforcing the message.
한국중앙영어영문학회 [The Jungang English Language And Literature Association Of Korea]
설립연도
1968
분야
인문학>영어와문학
소개
본 학회는 영미어문학의 학술연구와 이에 부합하는 아래의 사업을 기획 수행하며,
또한 회원 상호간의 친목을 도모함을 목적으로 한다.
1. 학회지 발간
2. 연구 발표회, 강연회, 공동연구
3. 영미어문학 관련 도서출판
4. 영미어문학 관계 도서 및 자료의 모집 및 비치
5. 기타 본회의 목적 달성에 필요한 사업
간행물
간행물명
영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]