Joseph Heller's Catch-22
By: edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Contributors: Bloom, Harold.
Series: Bloom's guides
Publisher: Chelsea House
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781604132014
Subjects: Heller, Joseph; World War, 1939-1945 -- Literature and the war; War stories, American -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Joseph J. Waldmeir on flaws and weaknesses in Catch-22; title: Alvin Greenberg on existential choices in Catch-22; title: Wayne Charles Miller on Joseph Heller and Herman Melville; title: Alfred Kazin on Catch-22 as emblem of war as "political uselessness"; title: Tony Tanner on strategies of survival in Catch-22; title: Clinton S. Burhans, Jr. on structure and chaos in Catch-22; title: Gerald B. Nelson on the unfunny vision of Catch-22; title: Stephen L. Sniderman on Yossarian's culpability; title: Morris Dickstein on Yossarian's changing character; title: Gary Lindberg on Yossarian as atypical confidence man; title: Norman Podhoretz on rethinking Catch-22; title: Michael C. Scoggins on Joseph Heller's combat experiences in Catch-22; title: Steven J. Doloff on Snowden's secret irony.