English week four In class notes
September
Metafiction
- Persona is the author of the book
- Novel plays with the boundaries of the text (papratext)
- Author intrusions P 67/ 125 vonnegut persona, reminds us the reader that it is fiction but that perhaps
it happened
- commentary on the conventions of narrative and other elements of fiction- fiction does not have to
have a certain form
Commentary on the conventions of narrative and other elements of fiction
- war movie played backwards 73-73
- tralfalmadorian novel 88
- no bad guys- 8
- lack of characters 164
- why is it included?
- to add to the fact that it is nonsensical, that fiction exists on another realm even if it is portraying a
fairly realistic environment
- war movie played backwards: rewinding time everyone is unstuck in time he is not stuck in a linear
aspect. wish fulfillment. the movie is turned into a narrative of hope and healing rather than death.
historical movie that we all know theending but it is ironic touchingly. Vonnegut saying to readers that
we bring to the text what we read.
- Tralfalmadorian novel- a description of what Vonnegut is trying to do in his own writing. there is no
real connection to Vonnegut and Billy. All the time jumps are all marvelous moments. It is also similar to
the process of analysis. To what extent is slaughterhouse five a tralfalmadorian novel. How is the
slaughterhouse like the theories in tralfalmadorian novels?
Aristotles sublime- a feeling of euphoria that one cannot comprehend
- no bad guys- sets us up to understand that there are no viallains in this book. In college he found out
that everyone has a need. everyone needs to balance out an antagonists and protagonists. There were
many pseudo antagonists. made a commentary on the nature of people in general. He coud come across
as a villain but it is their outlook on life. The tralfalmadorians are going to destroy the universe but they
feel that they are doing the right thing ie surviving in the context they are given. No one is truly good or
September
Metafiction
- Persona is the author of the book
- Novel plays with the boundaries of the text (papratext)
- Author intrusions P 67/ 125 vonnegut persona, reminds us the reader that it is fiction but that perhaps
it happened
- commentary on the conventions of narrative and other elements of fiction- fiction does not have to
have a certain form
Commentary on the conventions of narrative and other elements of fiction
- war movie played backwards 73-73
- tralfalmadorian novel 88
- no bad guys- 8
- lack of characters 164
- why is it included?
- to add to the fact that it is nonsensical, that fiction exists on another realm even if it is portraying a
fairly realistic environment
- war movie played backwards: rewinding time everyone is unstuck in time he is not stuck in a linear
aspect. wish fulfillment. the movie is turned into a narrative of hope and healing rather than death.
historical movie that we all know theending but it is ironic touchingly. Vonnegut saying to readers that
we bring to the text what we read.
- Tralfalmadorian novel- a description of what Vonnegut is trying to do in his own writing. there is no
real connection to Vonnegut and Billy. All the time jumps are all marvelous moments. It is also similar to
the process of analysis. To what extent is slaughterhouse five a tralfalmadorian novel. How is the
slaughterhouse like the theories in tralfalmadorian novels?
Aristotles sublime- a feeling of euphoria that one cannot comprehend
- no bad guys- sets us up to understand that there are no viallains in this book. In college he found out
that everyone has a need. everyone needs to balance out an antagonists and protagonists. There were
many pseudo antagonists. made a commentary on the nature of people in general. He coud come across
as a villain but it is their outlook on life. The tralfalmadorians are going to destroy the universe but they
feel that they are doing the right thing ie surviving in the context they are given. No one is truly good or
