Slaughterhouse-Five에 나타난 메타픽션과 과학소설 기법

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 Abstract A Study on Narrative Methods of Metafiction and Science Fiction Used in Slaughterhouse-Five Park, Kwang-Hee (Pai Chai University) This paper aims at analyzing postmodern narrative methods of metafiction and sci-fi in Slaughterhouse-Five, and ways of delivering and supporting the messages of the writer. Kurt Vonnegut adopts narrative methods of metafiction and sci-fi in his works. While metafiction helps people overcome their identity crisis in a rapidly developing modern society, sci-fi helps people look back on themselves and refocus on current situations when Realism and Modernism are no longer accounted for modern phenomena. Vonnegut deals with two crucial problems associated with novel writing and delivering his message in Slaughterhouse-Five by using techniques of metafiction and sci-fi. Those two postmodern techniques can be a way of describing an inhumane incident and making people look back on the absurdity of history and their society through fabrication and illusion, making them face and overcome the reality. In conclusion, postmodern narrative methods such as metafiction and sci-fi are good ways of describing the absurdity of our culture and society and are able to effectively deliver the message of humanity, reinforcing the message. Key Words: Postmodernism, self-reflection, metafiction, sci-fi, absurdity, illusion, Dresden, Tralfamadore/ 포스트모더니즘, 자아반영, 메타픽션, 과학소설, 부조리, 환상, 드레스덴, 트랄팔마도어 (투고일: 2006. 7. 31, 심사일: 8. 10, 심사완료일 8. 25)