Satire, structure, and postmodernity : reimagining Catch-22

• Main Author: Dhaliwal, Kieran
• Other Authors: Richard Barlow
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/70378
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This thesis looks at how Joseph Heller's novel, "Catch-22" can be read using the framework of postmodernity and Mikhail Bakhtin's 'carnival'. It looks at the context of the novel's publication and the various ways it reflects the society of the time as well as how...