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Vonnegut Slaughterhouse_five and fantastic literature
Category: Reference, Education and News > Teaching and Research Asked by: abdofirooz-ga List Price: $12.00 |
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18 May 2005 23:41 PDT
Expires: 17 Jun 2005 23:41 PDT Question ID: 523226 |
Can i do my MA thesis on Slaughterhouse_five of Kurt Vonnegut according to the fantastic Literature theory of Tzveton Todorov? How the novel can be considered as a fantastic literaature? |
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Re: Vonnegut Slaughterhouse_five and fantastic literature
From: calaf-ga on 30 May 2005 06:51 PDT |
You could do this if 1) you could in Vonnegut's interviews places where he has mentioned Tzveton Todorov and explain what Vonnegut took from Todorov and why he glommed onto him to begin with. 2) you could identify passages in Slaughterhouse five that are very similar to passages in Todorov. Not just in words used, but in philosophical content. 3) you could find characters in Vonnegut who could just easily BE Todorov, because of the things they say, because of physical similarities. 4) you could determine how likely it was Vonnegut would have encountered the work of Todorov before the writing of Slaughterhouse Five by researching the number of times Todorov is mentioned in the index of the Readers's Guide to Periodic Literature, which would be in bound copies in your library. Just count how many times he's mentioned in a given year. 5) Find articles that connect Todorov directly to developments in late 1960s America. Perhaps as analogy. Perhaps because Todorov is being prophetic in the way writers of fiction can be. 6) In your thesis paragraph define what you mean by fantastic literary theory. And just go through item by item explaining how Vonnegut's book falls into this category. I hope this helps. |
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