Slaughterhouse V -4.ppt

Slaughterhouse V -4 Historical Representation as Discourse The Topics Covered Metafiction and Novelistic Frame War (cruel irrational; where myth and heroism are impossible) v.s. the Postmodern World (experience mediated by popular culture) Vonnegut’s, Billy Pilgrim’s and Roland Weary’s Responses to the War Tralfamodore’s alternative reality Starting Questions about Chaps 7-10 The Dresden Experience: of beauty and syrup? What roles do the following “historical figures” play? Women such as Valencia and Montana Wildhack Authors such as Howard W. Campbell Jr., Kilgore Trout (introduced by Eliot Rosewater), Rumford Post-bombing experience and post-plane crash experience Outline Plot Parodies of authorial figure Discursive Formation: radio program and book store Two Alternative Perspectives beside the Dark Comic one. Trauma ? fragmentation (? reconstruction) Plot and Time 1022 – Young Billy in Ilium 1944 – Luxemburg forest/unstuck in time? English compound [hospital]? Dresden 1945-47 – Studies Optometry [hospital] 1957 --set up in business (optometry) 1964 – V meet O’Hare 1967 – Lion Club meeting; kidnapped by Tralfamadorians 1967 – V go back to Dresden 1968 – airplane crash 1968 – V the novel SH-V 1976 (future)– US balkanized, BP killed Tralfamadore Plot and Time VII--1968 plane--on the plane--44 in Luxemburg forest--plane--unconscious--slaughterhouse--work--spooning the syrup 160-161 VIII --Campbell--Trout--the song about old gangs--a big secret in him 172-73--the bombing and the four guards--Montana –Rumfold--travel back to 1958--back to 16 yr old IX--Valencia died--in the hospital with Rumfoord--Billy cries over the two horses poor condition 197 – Billy in radio station and bookstore, with Montana X – Vonnegut about Billy, about going back to Dresden, “I was there.” Ending with Billy and Maori Self-Reconstructions through Author Surrogates: Kilgore Trout from Ilium 111 —The Gospel from Outer Space: 108-109 —New Gospel: don’t kill people