Format:
xli, 216 Seiten
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24 cm
ISBN:
9781642659962
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1642659967
Series Statement:
Critical insights
Content:
About this volume : How Catch-22 changed the narrative of war /Laura Nicosia and James F. Nicosia --On Catch-22 : to Heller and back /Laura Nicosia and James F. Nicosia --Biography of Joseph Heller /Gerardo Del Guercio --Historical context of Catch 22 : Joseph Heller's wars /Melinda Knight --Critical reception of Joseph Heller's Catch-22 : a novel that defined a generation /Melinda Knight --'Yossarian bleated faintly' : Catch-22 and military experience in the new millennium /Peter Molin and J.M. Meyer --To absurdity and beyond : surrealism and escape in Catch-22 and Going after Cacciato /James Plath --A chief concern : the presentation of Indigenous Americans in Joseph Heller's Catch-22 and Ken Kesey's One flew over the cuckoo's nest /Jericho Williams --Sanity and insanity in Heller, Vonnegut, and Nguyen /Elissa Greenwald --Literary paradoxes : reading war, death, and survival in The catcher in the rye and Catch-22 /Tammie Jenkins --The concept of duty in The German lesson and Catch-22 /Klara Penezić --'It all sounds a bit crazy' : repetition and the immediate callback in Catch-22 /Sam Chesters --War ration(ality) : Catch-22, history, and the rhetoric of fictionality /Michael Hedges --Measuring social change (E=mc2) : Kafka's working women, Camus' rats, and Heller's metallic women /Nancy Ann Watanabe --'We have met the enemy and he is us' : elemental connections in Joseph Heller's Catch-22 and Arundhati Roy's The ministry of utmost happiness /Lucky Issar --Chronology of Joseph Heller's life --Works by Joseph Heller.
Content:
"Catch-22 was published in 1961, becoming a number-one bestseller in England before American audiences identified with its anti-war sentiments, earning it classic status and prompting a film version in 1970. Heller's dark, satirical novel became so ubiquitous that it initiated the eponymous phrase regarding paradoxical situations. Catch-22 is appreciated for its black humor, extensive use of flashbacks, contorted chronology, countercultural sensibilities, and bizarre language structures. With current trends and political climate considered, this volume revisits this classic text for a contemporary audience."--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Language:
English
Keywords:
Heller, Joseph 1923-1999 Catch-22
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Einführung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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