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Language and the system : the closed world of Joseph Heller's fictionRojas, René January 1994 (has links)
This is a study of the use of language in Joseph Heller's novels Catch-22, Something Happened, Good as Gold, God Knows and Picture This. Heller's fiction is characterized by self-negating sentences and logic, a repetitive story line and circular structure. Each novel concerns the relationship between people and language, but the relationship invariably is circular and inherently non-progressive. The separation between people and language, analogous to the separation between existence and expression, is the basis for Heller's thematics. / Joseph Heller is a novelist who writes about language. Heller's novels all contain or evoke a common system characterized by self-containment and self-reference. In this system, language and literature are self-referential. It is implicit within Heller's writing that literature is a self-contained, non-progressive system, and consequently, it cannot yield a conclusive resolution. The self-contained system of his novels becomes analogous for literature, language, and finally knowledge. Definitive knowledge, being a derivative of language, is impossible. Eventually, Heller's fiction allows no final resolution because of the inconclusive nature of language itself.
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Towards a postmodern absurd :the fiction of Joseph HellerGrayson, Erik. January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.). / Written for the Dept. of English. Title from title page of PDF (viewed 2008/07/28). Includes bibliographical references.
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Bewilderment and illumination Catch-22 and the Dark Humor of the 1960s /Staaby, Kirsten. January 2009 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.)--Liberty University, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references.
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Catch-22 : man in an alien societyBarbour, Michael McKay January 1969 (has links)
This paper examines social relationships and pressures of contemporary society as shown in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22. Through a brief study of conceptual limitations within Heller's characters it demonstrates that they exist within a totally self-enclosed system divorced from reality but supported by complex justifications. Within this social matrix is seen the heroic strivings of Yossarian to save a world he believes to have gone mad.
As the study progresses, it shows that Yossarian and his friends do not in fact share the same conceptual basis as their apparent society. Their satiric efforts are seen to be useless to a society convinced of its own justifications for evil, and destructive to their own potentialities for human-beingness.
The ultimate goal of society is seen to be a physical and spiritual fascism in which no dissent is possible. Escape and death are shown to be the true alternatives for those who would maintain their individuality and ethics. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate
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Language and the system : the closed world of Joseph Heller's fictionRojas, René January 1994 (has links)
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Possibilities of Affirmation in Joseph Heller’s Fictional WorldPaterson, John B. January 1978 (has links)
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Sane lunacy : an evaluation of Joseph Heller's Catch-22 and the critical reaction to it. --Byrne, Pat, January 1972 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.) -- Memorial University of Newfoundland. 1973. / Typescript. Bibliography : leaves [268]-288. Also available online.
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The postwar novel as postmodern : revisiting Catch-22 & Slaughterhouse-five /Spreitzer, Peter January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.)--Oregon State University, 2010. / Printout. Also available on the World Wide Web.
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Towards a postmodern absurd : the fiction of Joseph HellerGrayson, Erik January 2003 (has links)
This thesis examines the entirety of Joseph Heller's career as a novelist and explores the various existential themes uniting a seemingly diverse body of work. Considering Heller's relationship to the philosophy of Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre, "Towards a Postmodern Absurd: The Fiction of Joseph Heller" suggests that the novelist promotes the same existentially authentic lifestyle of revolt originally articulated by the French existentialists. Refuting the critical assessment of Heller's fiction as formless, this thesis argues that Heller deliberately structures his fiction around the concept of dejd vu in order to buttress the author's existential concerns with the absurdity of human existence. Finally, in response to the recent debates over Joseph Heller's place in the postmodern American canon, the thesis identifies the author's use of such postmodern concepts as pastiche and paranoia as a further reinforcement of the relevance of an absurdist worldview in contemporary America.
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A study of Camus' notion of the absurd and its mythology in "Catch-22" and "Slaughterhouse-Five"Keegan, Diana Morna Gerrard Dickson. January 2008 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Delaware, 2007. / Principal faculty advisor: Elaine B. Safer, Dept. of English. Includes bibliographical references.
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