{"product_id":"kurt-vonneguts-slaughterhouse-five-as-historiographic-metafiction-von-markus-schneider","title":"Kurt Vonnegut's \"Slaughterhouse-Five\" as Historiographic Metafiction","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,3, University of Bamberg (Professur für Amerikanistik), course: American Historiographic Metafiction, language: English, abstract: The representation of history depends mainly on the perspective, attitude and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecultural background of the beholder; which at the same time marks the major flaw of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehistoriography. One topic or event will never be identically described by two historians,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eeven if they are given the very same materials and sources to work with. As a consequence,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehistoriography can only try to create an image, as true and original as possible, but is never\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eable to depict everything that happened as it actually was in its full scope. So there were\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand always will be fictional elements and interpretations in the reports and writings about\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epast events.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis assumption leads us to historiographic metafiction, a style of writing that\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eemerged during the postmodern era. If there is fiction in scholarly historiography, where is\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe difference between that and a novel that deals with history? This term paper will try to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egive an answer to that question and examine features and characteristics of historiographic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emetafiction, which eventually will be applied to Kurt Vonnegut¿s Slaughterhouse-Five. In\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epostmodern literature and, of course, especially in historiographic metafiction, authors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etried to find new ways of telling stories and particularly representing history. I will take a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecloser look at the narrative frame and especially the concept of time Vonnegut used in the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enovel. But how is history represented in Slaughterhouse-Five? This will be the second part\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof the analysis that will attempt to find answers why Vonnegut wrote the novel the way he\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edid. The third part will deal with intertextual elements in the novel. All citations from the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enovel and the pages indicated in brackets are taken from the edition cited below.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783656057642\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783656057642","offer_id":39432297087069,"sku":"9783656057642","price":15.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/46eb9e49-5e7b-44af-8212-52d6441d3c2d.jpg?v=1777870423","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/kurt-vonneguts-slaughterhouse-five-as-historiographic-metafiction-von-markus-schneider","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}