1. Slaughterhouse V -4 Historical Representation as Discourse

2. The Topics Covered 1. Metafiction and Novelistic Frame 2. War (cruel & irrational; where myth and heroism are impossible) v.s. the Postmodern World (experience mediated by popular culture) 3. Vonnegut’s, Billy Pilgrim’s and Roland Weary’s Responses to the War 4. Tralfamodore’s alternative reality

3. Starting Questions about Chaps 7- 10 The Dresden Experience: of beauty and syrup? What roles do the following “historical figures” play? Women such as Valencia and Montana Wildhack Authors such as Howard W. Campbell Jr., Kilgore Trout (introduced by Eliot Rosewater), Rumford Post-bombing experience and post-plane crash experience

4. Outline 1. Plot 2. Parodies of authorial figure 3. Discursive Formation: radio program and book store 4. Two Alternative Perspectives beside the Dark Comic one. Trauma  fragmentation (  reconstruction)

5. Plot and Time 1022 – Young Billy in Ilium 1944 – Luxemburg forest/unstuck in time  English compound [hospital]  Dresden 1945-47 – Studies Optometry [hospital] 1957 --set up in business (optometry) 1964 – V meet O’Hare 1967 – Lion Club meeting; kidnapped by Tralfamadorians 1967 – V go back to Dresden 1968 – airplane crash 1968 – V the novel SH-V 1976 (future)– US balkanized, BP killed Tralfamadore

6. Plot and Time VII--1968 plane--on the plane--'44 in Luxemburg forest-- plane--unconscious--slaughterhouse--work--spooning the syrup 160-161 VIII --Campbell--Trout--the song about old gangs--a big secret in him 172-73--the bombing and the four guards-- Montana –Rumfold--travel back to 1958--back to 16 yr old IX--Valencia died--in the hospital with Rumfoord--Billy cries over the two horses' poor condition 197 – Billy in radio station and bookstore, with Montana X – Vonnegut about Billy, about going back to Dresden, “I was there.” Ending with Billy and Maori

7. Self-Reconstructions through Author Surrogates: Kilgore Trout from Ilium 111 —The Gospel from Outer Space: 108-109 —New Gospel: don’t kill people with no connections Fourth Dimension 104 (Money Tree 167 Gutless wonder 168-(halitosis 口臭, drop gasoline bombs) KT with his fans: happy and loud 170; view about fiction 171 (“It happened.”) about time machine 202  Jesus dead Big Board—about kidnap and investment 201)

8. Self-Reconstructions through Author Surrogates: Kilgore Trout with critical messages; Criticize Christianity -- about time machine 202  Jesus dead Human Oppression--The Gospel from Outer Space: 108- 109 Satirize human greed -- Money Tree 167 Emphasis on appearance -- Gutless wonder Human Limitation -- Fourth Dimension Self-Parody KT with his fans: happy and loud 170; view about fiction 171 (“It happened.”) Big Board—about kidnap and investment 201 No Positive or Constructive Messages

9. Author ” s ” (2)  Author Functions Be-littled, but human Vonnegut: “I was there.” 125; 148 Eliot Rosewater 102 (like Derby) Ridiculed: Official Historian -- Rumford183-191; 198 – Literary critics and the death of fiction: 205  author functions in discursive apparatuses such as bookstore and radio

10. Two Alternative Views(1): Tralfamadorian --Review Why me? 77 T’s novel 88 The moment simply is. We are all bugs in amber. 27; 86 five sexes on T, seven on earth 114 human beings as millepedes 87; their view of our concept of time 115 War & Peace; "We spend eternity looking at the peaceful moment" 116-17 "Everything was Beautiful and Nothing Hurts" 122 interest in Darwin 210

11. Two Alternative Views(1): Tralfamadorian in their zoo 111--his life in the zoo, think nothing of the Gay Nineties couple on the wall; happy with his body 113 Montana Wildhack 132  Would you like to live in such a world?  Do you agree with their world views? Billy does. p. 190

12. Tralfamadorian Views — Possible Interpretations 1. Fatalist; 2. Denies progressive views of history; arbitrary causal connections. 3. Aesthetic: “an image of life that is beautiful and surprising and deep.” 4. Escapist & Non-Human: just look at the good moments; 5. Cosmic or Macrocosmic: we are just a bug frozen in amber. 6.  discourse and discursive formation

13. Repetitions – Obsession or Humanist Concern 「模仿言語症」 (echolalia) Echolalia?192 “So it goes.” 27 candle and soap made from dead Jews 96; water 101; Billy's own death 143 I was there. Billy//Vonnegut. Edgar Derby p. 83; “poor old” Ask about Wild Bob 188; 212 Songs—Yon Yonson to Cotton workers p. 176  Patterns created but not fixed.

14. Two Alternative Views(2): Humanist Dreams/fantasies of Adam and Eve, giraffes (99)

15. Ending 161 births the innkeeper says in German, “Good night, Americans. Sleep well.” 181 the horse 197, the bird; syrup,