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Reading 'Catch-22'
Comic novelist and critic, Paul McDonald, provides an accessible, revealing guide to Joseph Heller's seminal anti-war novel, Catch-22. In order to help readers deepen their understanding of this perplexing comedy, McDonald succinctly contextualises it both in relation to the author's life,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Humanities-Ebooks
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover ; Licence and Use; Title Page; Copyright; CONTENTS ; 1. Introduction; 2. A Biography of Joseph Heller; 2.1. Early Life; 2.2. Heller as a Soldier; 2.3. Heller after the War; 2.4. Finding a Voice; 2.5. The Genesis of Catch 22; 2.6. Catch-22 is Published; 2.7. The Cultural Moment of Catch-22; 2.8 Heller after Catch-22; 3. Literary strategies; 3.1. Humour in Catch-22; 3.2. The Structure and Realism in Catch-22; 3.3. Influences; 4. Catch-22
- Sequential Development and Analysis; 4.1. Chapters One to Six ; 4.2. Chapters Seven to Thirteen; 4.3. Chapters Fourteen to Twenty.
- 4.4. Chapters Twenty One to Twenty Seven4.5. Chapters Twenty Eight to Thirty Five; 4.6. Chapters Thirty Six to Forty Two; 5. Interpreting Catch-22; 5.1. Yossarian as Individualist Hero; 5.2. Yossarian and Contemporary America ; 5.3. Yossarian as Mythic Hero; 5.4. Yossarian as Postmodern Hero.; 5.5. Yossarian as the Hero of a Bad Novel; 5.6. Yossarian as an Old Man: Closing Time; 6. Bibliography; 6.1. Other Relevant Books by Heller; 6.2. Catch-22 Film; 6.3. Books about Heller; 6.4. Books on Modern American Writing; 6.5. Online Material; A Note on the Author; Humanities-Ebooks.