【作者】 李晶；

【导师】 姚君伟；

【作者基本信息】 南京师范大学 ， 英语语言文学， 2017， 硕士

【摘要】 彼得· J.里德称《猫的摇篮》是库尔特·冯内古特真正意义上的第一部后现代主义小说。目前,关于《猫的摇篮》的研究主要集中在主题分析或文类分析。本文基于拼贴,本论文对《猫的摇篮》中的虚实拼贴、宏大叙事与微观叙事拼贴、碎片与整体拼贴进行了探讨。在回顾拼贴的起源、萌芽和发展后,本文发现《猫的摇篮》具有明显的拼贴性。形式上,《猫的摇篮》有很强的自传性特点,畸形的家庭关系、战后美国物质与精神的颓败、女权运动的兴起既是作家自身生活的写照,也是《猫的摇篮》的主人公们所处的困境。虚实拼贴使整部小说成为荒诞与理性的结合体。内容上,《猫的摇篮》虚构了“柏克农”神教和致命科技新品“ice-9”,主人公们对宗教和科技的盲目崇拜最终导致他们走向毁灭。内容上,《猫的摇篮》中,冯内古特质疑了科技和宗教将带领人类走过战后荒芜的宏大叙事,同时用微观叙事记录了主人公约拿自始至终的精神成长。宏大叙事与微观叙事拼贴使《猫的摇篮》更具深度。风格上,《猫的摇篮》语言凝练,呈现出消费主义的趋势,整部作品浑然一体。零写作和巧妙的文字游戏又使小说碎片化。整体与碎片拼贴使小说既条理清晰,又行文诡谲。拼贴是冯内古特最重要的写作技巧之一,《猫的摇篮》因拼贴成为后现代主义代表作品,作者冯内古特也因此成为后现代主义作家的领军人物。更多还原

【Abstract】 Peter J. Reed reckons Cat’s Cradle as the first truly postmodern novel of Kurt Vonnegut. So far, the critical studies of Cat’s Cradle are mainly on its themes or genre as a science fiction. Based on collage, an indispensable postmodern writing technique, the present thesis attempts to probe into the truth and untruth collage, the collage of grand narrative and micro narrative, the fragment and unity collage in Cat’s Cradle.After tracing the origin, budding and blooming of collage, this thesis finds that the use of collage in Cat’s Cradle is salient. As for its form,Cat’s Cradle is strongly autobiographical. The deformed family bonding, the material and spiritual despondence in the post-war America, the rise of feminist movement are the living evidences of the author’s own life and the mire that the characters in Cat’s Cradle are stuck in. The truth and untruth collages make Cat’s Cradle a paradoxical combination of absurdity and rationality. As for its content,Vonnegut fabricates a non-existent religion,i. e. Bokonon,and the lethal weapon "ice-9", which allures his characters in Cat’s Cradle into doom. In Cat’s Cradle, Vonnegut places doubts about the grand narrative which pins all hope on the propaganda that religion and science would help humanity walk out of the spiritual wilderness of the post-war America. Meanwhile, Cat’s Cradle uses micro narrative to record the spiritual growth of the narrator Jonah. Through refuting the grand narrative and highlighting micro narrative, Cat’s Cradle becomes more profound. Regarding the style,the economy of diction in Cat’s Cradle and the apparent inclination toward consumerism make it unified in the overall writing style while Vonnegut’s narration of writing zero and language game fragmentize the novel at the same time. The collage of fragment and unity vocalizes the logic behind the novel and makes it unpredictable and abstruse.Collage is one of the most important writing technique of Kurt Vonnegut, which makes Cat’s Cradle a postmodern masterpiece and the author Kurt Vonnegut a herald of postmodern writers.更多还原