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 Thirteen4.3. Chapters Fourteen to Twenty
  • 4.4. Chapters Twenty One to Twenty Seven
  • 4.5. 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 Heller6.4. Books on Modern American Writing
  • 6.5. Online Material
  • A Note on the Author
  • Humanities-Ebooks
  • Humanities Insights