摘要
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.
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.
出处
《外国文学研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2005年第6期48-55,共8页
Foreign Literature Studies
关键词
超小说
美国
文学研究
写作技巧
代表作品
Kurt Vonnegut Timequake Postmodemism Metanarrative Historiographic metafiction
