Joseph Heller's Catch-22 / edited & with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Harold.

Series:

Bloom's guides

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heller, Joseph. Catch-22.

Heller, Joseph.

World War, 1939-1945--Literature and the war.

World War, 1939-1945.

War stories, American--History and criticism.

War stories, American.

Physical Description:

148 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, [2009]

Contents:

Joseph J. Waldmeir on flaws and weaknesses in Catch-22

Alvin Greenberg on existential choices in Catch-22

Wayne Charles Miller on Joseph Heller and Herman Melville

Alfred Kazin on Catch-22 as emblem of war as "political uselessness"

Tony Tanner on strategies of survival in Catch-22

Clinton S. Burhans, Jr. on structure and chaos in Catch-22

Gerald B. Nelson on the unfunny vision of Catch-22

Stephen L. Sniderman on Yossarian's culpability

Morris Dickstein on Yossarian's changing character

Gary Lindberg on Yossarian as atypical confidence man

Norman Podhoretz on rethinking Catch-22

Michael C. Scoggins on Joseph Heller's combat experiences in Catch-22

Steven J. Doloff on Snowden's secret irony.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 132-136) and index.

ISBN:

9781604132014

1604132019

OCLC:

237018899