Reading Catch-22 : a literature insight / Paul McDonald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McDonald, Paul.

Series:

Humanities Insights

Literature insights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heller, Joseph--Criticism and interpretation.

Heller, Joseph.

Heller, Joseph. Catch-22.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (82 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tirril [England] : Humanities-Ebooks, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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, and key developments in modern American literature. The book offers a thorough summary and analysis of the plot of Catch-22, addresses important characters such as Colonel Cathcart, Lieutenant Scheisskopf, Milo Minderbinder, Major Major, and Doc Daneeka, and explains the various ways in which Yossarian s hilarious predicament has been interpreted. Among other things it considers Yossarian s status as a mythic hero, an individualist hero, and a postmodern hero, assessing his relevance to contemporary America, and his re-emergence in the sequel to Catch-22, Closing Time, published in 1994. It also offers a descriptive bibliography of important secondary sources, and links to useful online texts."

Contents:

""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 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 Heller""""6.4. Books on Modern American Writing""; ""6.5. Online Material""; ""A Note on the Author""; ""Humanities-Ebooks""; ""Humanities Insights""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-280-67743-0

9786613654366

1-84760-200-2

OCLC:

794903861