Research Catalog

Title

Catch-22 / editors, Laura Nicosia & James F. Nicosia, Montclair State University, New Jersey.

Publication

• Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2021]
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Nicosia, Laura M.
• Nicosia, James F.

Description

xli, 216 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"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." --

Series Statement

Critical insights

Uniform Title

Critical insights.

Alternative Title

• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• Catch 22
• Catch twenty two

Subject

• Heller, Joseph
• Heller, Joseph > Criticism and interpretation
• Catch-22 (Heller, Joseph)
• 1939-1945
• World War, 1939-1945 > Literature and the war
• War and literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

Call Number

JFE 22-504

ISBN

• 9781642659962
• 1642659967

OCLC

1268231443

Title

Catch-22 / editors, Laura Nicosia & James F. Nicosia, Montclair State University, New Jersey.

Publisher

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2021]

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Critical insights

Critical insights.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1939-1945

Added Author

Nicosia, Laura M., editor.

Nicosia, James F., editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 22-504