Critical Insights: Catch-22

Buch | Hardcover

300 Seiten

2022
H.W. Wilson Publishing Co. (Verlag)
978-1-64265-996-2 (ISBN)

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Catch-22 is appreciated for its black humour, 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.

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	14.03.2022
Reihe/Serie	Critical Insights
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	516 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-64265-996-7 / 1642659967
ISBN-13	978-1-64265-996-2 / 9781642659962
Zustand	Neuware