从库尔特·冯内古特的《五号屠

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　　库尔特·冯内古特(1922—)是一位对当代美国文坛影响深远但又倍受文学评论家争议的作家。近年来,涌现了许多关于冯内古特的评论文章,越来越多的批评家们开始认识到,有必要对他和他的作品做更全面、细致的研究。特别是他的第六本小说,也是他的艺术颠峰之作:《五号屠场》(1969年)。这部小说是一部杰出的美国后现代文学作品,它与约瑟夫·海勒的《二十二条军规》以及托马斯·品钦的《万有引力之虹》一同被公认为是黑色幽默的代表作。 虽然有很多批评家注意到了作品内容的丰富性和深刻性以及小说叙述形式的独到和怪异,但很少有人把两者结合起来,考虑叙事技巧的使用对挖掘主题意义的独特作用。因此,本论文以冯内古特的代表作《五号屠场》作为研究文本,以小说创作时所处的六十年代的美国作为历史语境,运用热奈特、里蒙凯南的叙事学理论和叙事学原理对小说文本中出现的反传统叙事技巧进行细读和分析。 小说中虽然有大量的反常的叙事技巧,但小说作者对叙述顺序、叙述者以及叙事层次这三个方面的反传统的偏离显然是为了更好地服务于主题,也更好地表达了作者的意图。在热奈特和里蒙凯南的理论指导下,论文首先分析了小说混乱的叙述顺序。小说反传统地采用了一种...

【文章页数】：91 页

【学位级别】：硕士

【文章目录】：
ABSTRACT
摘要
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION
    1.1 Rationale of the present study
    1.2 Aim of the research
    1.3 Research methodology
    1.4 Structure of the thesis
CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEWS
    2.1 An introduction to the author and the novel
        2.1.1 The author Kurt Vonnegut
        2.1.2 The novel Slaughterhouse-Five
        2.1.3 The social background
    2.2 The previous researches on Slaughterhouse-Five
        2.2.1 The outcomes of the previous researches
        2.2.2 The insufficiencies of the previous researches
    2.3 Summary
CHAPTER THREE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS
    3.1 Introduction of narratology
    3.2 Gerard Genette's theory of narratology
    3.3 Rimmon-Kenan's theory of narrator
    3.4 Summary
CHAPTER FOUR DISORDERED NARRATIVE SEQUENCE
    4.1 Traditional narrative sequence
    4.2 Jumbled chronological sequence
        4.2.1 The Tralfamadorian schizophrenic manner
        4.2.2 Fragmental plot
        4.2.3 Spatial linear-time
        4.2.4 The unstuck Tralfamadorian concept of time
    4.3 Circular narrative sequence
        4.3.1 Circular nature of Slaughterhouse-Five
        4.3.2 Kurt Vonnegut's Yon Yonson cycle
        4.3.3 Billy's circular experiences
    4.4 Summary
CHAPTER FIVE DOUBLE IDENTITIES OF THE NARRATOR
    5.1 Kurt Vonnegut as the homodiegetic narrator witnessing the Dresden event
        5.1.1 Attesting to the authenticity of the Dresden event
        5.1.2 Fictionalizing the historical accounts
    5.2 Kurt Vonnegut as the extradiegetic narrator narrating the Dresden event
        5.2.1 Blurring the boundary between the fact and the fiction
        5.2.2 Holding a distance from the Dresden event
        5.2.3 Emphasizing the fatalism to accept the death
    5.3 Summary
CHAPTER SIX THREE-PLY NARRATIVE LEVELS
    6.1 Billy's world and the Tralfamadorian world
        6.1.1 The creator and his imagination
        6.1.2 The gospeler and the gospel consolation
    6.2 Vonnegut's world and Billy's world
        6.2.1 The traumatized prototype and his therapeutic alter ego
        6.2.2 The fictionalized history and the historical fiction
        6.2.3 Ambiguous belief and morality
    6.3 Summary
CHAPTER SEVEN CONCLUSION
    7.1 Findings of the thesis
    7.2 Limitations of the present research
    7.3 Suggestions for further studies
BIBLIOGRAPHY



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