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Post Modernism in kurt Vonnegut's slaughterhouse 5 and cat's cradle

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dc.contributor.author #NAME?
dc.date.accessioned 2014-04-01T06:51:16Z
dc.date.available 2014-04-01T06:51:16Z
dc.date.issued 4/1/2005
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.ewubd.edu/handle/2525/230
dc.description This thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MA in English Language and Literature of East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. en_US
dc.description.abstract My major focus in this study is to show how Kurt Vonnegut in his fictions Car’s Cradle and Slaughterhouse Five parodies conventional ways of thinking and transports us to the postmodernism world of hyper-reality where the idea of the original no longer exists. Postmodernism is usually understood as phenomenon origins in Western countries. In it nothing is what it appears to be. The failure of reason is what postmodernism had learned from the world wars. Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five (1969) was perhaps the first novel to embody the sentiments of the culture that emerged after the end of the Second World War. Vonnegut’s war experience left clear marks on his writing and the book Cat’s Cradle (1963) is also no exception. We notice in Vonnegut’s fictions that postmodern literature is subversive and playful. Both books are based on Vonnegut’s own experience in world war two. They are playfully ironic and yet serious. en_US
dc.language.iso en_US en_US
dc.publisher East West University en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries ;ENG00009
dc.subject English Language and Literature en_US
dc.title Post Modernism in kurt Vonnegut's slaughterhouse 5 and cat's cradle en_US
dc.type Thesis en_US


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