The Collage Art In Kurt Vonnegut's Post-modernist Metafiction

Kurt Vonnegut is the considerable influential writer in the American contemporary literary world; and his writing career spans half a century. Since 1950s, Vonnegut has had wide readership as the representative of black humor literature after the World War II. After 1969, he has published a series of Post-modernist novels: Slaughterhouse-Five, Jailbird, and Breakfast of Champions. These works formally established his position in the novel community, and made him become a typical representative of the post-modernist writer. The Postmodern Literature abandons the traditional principles of creating; the content and circumstances of the works have the obvious characteristics of fictionality and absurdity. About the Artistic Techniques, the post-modernist literature focuses on the art forms and artistic techniques innovation, and it shows the arbitrary and uncertain characteristics.This thesis uses postmodernist metafiction creation theory as the theoretical foundation, and focuses on the introductions of collage origins, as well as related concepts, especially the application of collage art in the metafictions. This thesis takes several Vonnegut's works as the examples. The thesis is divided into five parts, and it focuses on the narrative strategies of post-modernist metafiction, and makes the detailed analysis of Vonnegut's lots of usages of collage art in Slaughterhouse-Five, Breakfast of Champions and Timequake , such as: space-time collage, narration and comment collage, layout collage, vulgar and elegant collage, and so on. We can realize how the art of collage serves for the theme of novel through these analyses.