"You must remember this": Trauma and Memory in Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse-Five

Cacicedo, Alberto

doi:10.3200/crit.46.4.357-368

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“…Vonnegut scholars split into two opposite camps, many of them speaking against the above understanding of the book (cf. Cacicedo 2005, Broer 1994, Tanner 1971). To this issue is linked the question of the alleged anti-war sentiment of the novel, which juxtaposes pacifistic statements with the belief there will always be wars.…”

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Modal structure in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five

Kavalir¹

2011

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The article analyses modal structure (tense, polarity) in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five within the framework of Systemic-Functional Grammar. The analysis of the Mood element shows the prevailing pattern to be past positive; the use of present tenses embodies Vonnegut's specific non-linear concept of time. Similarly, the absence of negative polarity builds the deterministic belief that pervades the novel.

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Modal structure in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five

Kavalir¹

2011

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The Hero at a Thousand Places: Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five as Anti-Monomyth

Raj

Kumar

2020

Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction

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“To give form to what cannot be comprehended”: Trauma in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five and Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow

Czajkowska¹

2021

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The primary objective of this article is the analysis of trauma in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five and Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow. It is argued that through the deployment of experimental literary techniques (particularly destabilized and non-linear narratives) these two novels offer valuable insights into the mechanisms of a traumatized mind and help to understand the uncertain sense of the self experienced by those who suffer from traumatic memories.

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"You must remember this": Trauma and Memory in Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse-Five

Cited by 4 publications

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Modal structure in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five

Modal structure in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five

The Hero at a Thousand Places: Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five as Anti-Monomyth

“To give form to what cannot be comprehended”: Trauma in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five and Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow

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