Tilting at Mortality: Narrative Strategies in Joseph Heller's FictionWayne State University Press, 2000 - 330 páginas This work considers Joseph Heller's career and examines each of his novels, including Closing Time. It pursues two complementary tracks: first it explores the evolution of Heller's treatment of human morality; and second, it delineates Heller's artistic developments as a novelist. |
Contenido
PREFACE | 11 |
UNCERTAIN FIRST STEPS | 21 |
LOCATING THE WOUND TELLING THE TALE | 40 |
3 | 85 |
CLOSURE | 113 |
4 | 119 |
POSSIBILITY AND CONSTRAINT | 146 |
6 | 179 |
ANALOGICAL RELATIONSHIPS AND COMPLEMENTARY | 186 |
7 | 208 |
CONTEXT | 241 |
AFTERWORD | 252 |
JOSEPH HELLERS SCHEMATIC OUTLINE FOR CATCH22 | 263 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 308 |
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Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Tilting at Mortality: Narrative Strategies in Joseph Heller's Fiction David M. Craig Vista previa limitada - 1997 |
Tilting at Mortality: Narrative Strategies in Joseph Heller's Fiction David M. Craig Vista de fragmentos - 1997 |
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