Tilting at Mortality: Narrative Strategies in Joseph Heller's Fiction

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Wayne State University Press, 2000 - 330 pages
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.

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Contents

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
INDEX
324
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