Slaughterhouse Five/Intertextuality and Postmodern fiction

Intertextuality is the shaping of a text meaning by another text. Intertextual figures include: allusion, quotation, calque, plagiarism, translation, pastiche and parody.^[1][2][3] An example of intertextuality is an author’s borrowing and transformation of a prior text or to a reader’s referencing of one text in reading another.
The term “intertextuality” has, itself, been borrowed and transformed many times since it was coined by poststructuralist Julia Kristeva in 1966. As philosopher William Irwin wrote, the term “has come to have almost as many meanings as users, from those faithful to Kristeva’s original vision to those who simply use it as a stylish way of talking about allusion and influence.”[

Slaughterhouse Five Vocabulary

Find and define the following words as you find them in the novel:

Chapter 1

titillated

unmitigated

pneumatic

magnanimity

Chapter 2

scathingly

cockles

infinitesimal

roweled

clemency

Chapters 3 & 4

patina

sinuous

atrocity

androgyne

hasps

refractive

acrimonious

vertigo

extrapolating

madrigal

Chapter 5

impresario

epitaph

avuncular

lugubrious

catatonic

rodomontades

baroque

opalescent

Chapter 6

palpated

travesty

abominable

amoretti

Chapters 7 & 8

solicitously

bucolic

adulation

repatriated

impudent

nacreous

harangued

Chapters 9 & 10

commiserating

importuned

suffragette

connoisseurs

tawdry

inert

beguiled

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Slaughterhouse-Five Allusions; Cultural References

When authors refer to other great works, people, and events, it’s usually not accidental. Put on your super-sleuth hat and figure out why.

Literary and Philosophical References

• "Eheu, fugaces laburuntur anni," Latin quote from Horace: "Alas, our fleeting years pass away" (1.9.1)
• Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Charles Mackay (1.12.1)
• Dresden, History, Stage and Gallery, Mary Endell (1.12.10)
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1.12.14)
• Words for the Wind, Theodore Roethke (1.20.1)
• Céline and His Vision, Erika Ostrovsky (1.20.1-3)
• Death on the Installment Plan, Louis Ferdinand Céline (1.20.3)
• The Gideon Bible (1.21.1-5)
• Martin Luther (2.12.1)
• The Execution of Private Slovik, William Bradford Huie (2.27.2)
• Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann (5.2.1)
• Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane (5.18.2)
• The Brother's Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky (5.21.1)
• The New Testament (5.30.5)
• Scheherazade, from One Thousand and One Arabian Nights (5.49.1)
• Kin Hubbard, playwright (5.56.2)
• The land of Oz from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (6.17.3)
• Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott (8.11.3)
• The Destruction of Dresden, David Irving (9.5.1)
• George Jean Nathan, critic (9.24.1)
• Norman Mailer, author and playwright (9.33.1)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe (9.33.1)
• The Three Musketeers (2.24.3, 2.31.10, 2.32.2)

Historical References

• The firebombing of Dresden
• The atomic bombing of Hiroshima (1.6.3, 9.4.4, 9.4.8-13)
• Nazi concentration camps (1.6.3)
• The Children's Crusade (1.11.2, 5.27.9)
• George Washington (1.13.1)
• The Civil War (2.27.2)
• Earl Warren (3.5.2)
• Sir Isaac Newton and the Third Law of Motion (4.12.1)
• Battle of Dunkirk (5.27.1)
• Queen Elizabeth I of England (5.45.10)
• Christopher Columbus (5.45.10)
• Green Berets, Vietnam (3.14.1, 5.45.9, 5.46.1, 5.51.9, 9.8.2)
• President John F. Kennedy (5.49.2)
• Napoleonic times (1803-1815) (5.57.2)
• Hill 875 near Dakto, Vietnam (5.65.2)
• Ronald Reagan (9.1.3)
• Ira C. Eaker, Lieutenant General, U.S.A.F. (9.5.1)
• British Air Marshal Sir Robert Saundby (9.5.1)
• Charles Darwin, British naturalist (10.2.1)

Cultural and Pop Culture References

• "My name is Yon Yonson" children's song (1.2.4)
• Harrison Starr, director (1.2.7-12)
• Mutt and Jeff, comic strip (1.3.16)
• New York World's Fair (1.9.1, 1.13.1)
• John Wayne (1.10.18)
• Frank Sinatra (1.10.18)
• Walt Disney (1.13.1)
• "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God," hymn (2.12.1)
• Johann Sebastian Bach (2.12.1)
• The Iron Maiden of Nuremberg (2.17.4)
• Louis Daguerre (2.23.2)
• André Le Fèvre (2.23.2-4)
• The "Mona Lisa," painted by Leonardo da Vinci (3.8.1)
• "Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here," Pirates of Penzance, Gilbert and Sullivan (5.11.7)
• Cinderella (5.15.2, 5.53.4, 5.55.2, 6.11)
• "The Spirit of '76," American painting by Archibald MacNeal Willard (6.9.1)
• "Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nelly," popular song (7.4.1)
• "That Old Gang of Mine," popular song (8.14.1)
• "'Leven Cent Cotton, Forty Cent Meat," popular song (8.19.2)

Steohen Crane: 
http://www.online-literature.com/crane/2540/ 

Theodore Roethke:
The Waking
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/172106