荒诞文学在《第二十二条军规》中的成功运用
毕业论文关键词：荒诞；《第二十二条军规》；语言；艺术价值
Abstract America was in peace time in the 1960s after World WarⅡ. This period of American society highlights a various kinds of social problems and exposed an absurdly desperate world. Under this background, the Catch-22 was created. It is the foundation of post-modernism black humor. Mainly by text analysis approach, this paper emphatically focuses on the application of absurdism in the novel. That is, how the absurdism is performed in the characterization and theme description. Combined with the characteristics and the details of absurdism, this paper expounds the absurdity literature application value in the novel. In this paper, the research of absurdism can help readers to better appreciate the novel, further understand western literary theory, and lay the foundation for the development of Chinese literary.
Key words: absurdity; Catch-22; language ; artistic value
Analysis On the successful use of absurdity in Catch-22
Contents
摘 要 i
Abstract ii
I. Introduction 1
II. Absurdity 3
2.1 Development of the Absurd School 3
2.2 Characteristics of Absurdity 4
III. Linguistic Analysis of Catch-22 5
3. 1 Contradiction 5
3. 2 Ambiguous Expressions 6
3. 3 Repetition and Inappropriate Sentences 6
3. 4 Circular Conversation 7
IV. Absurdity in Catch-22 8
4.1 Characterization of Catch-22 8
4.1.1 Yossarian 8
4.1.2 Other Characters 9
4.2 Themes of Catch-22 10
4.2.1 The Chaotic World 10
4.2.2 Absurdity of the ruling Class in Military Force 11
V. Conclusion 12
Bibliography 14
Acknowledgements 15
I. Introduction
In this part, the paper is to give a brief introduction of Joseph Heller and the literature review of Catch-22. The author was one of the most famous writers of black humor and the Catch-22, as one of his masterpiece gained world-fame.
Joseph Heller (1923-1999) was one of the most prominent contemporary novelists in the United States, known as a representative of Black Humor. He had published several short stories which are collected in Catch As Catch Can: The Collected Stories and Other Writings (2003), plays—We Bombed in New Haven (1960), Clevenger's Trial (1973), and novels, such as Good as Gold(1979), God Knows(1984) , and the best known ones Catch-22 and Something Happened, and so on.
Born in a Russia-Jewish immigrant family, he led a hard life during his childhood. Critics say that the unique characteristics of his cynical, street-style humor is indebted to his childhood experience in Brooklyn, Coney Island. After graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in 1941, he served as a bombardier in the Army Air Corps in World War II. In 1944, he was sent to Corsica, Italy, as a B-25 bombardier, and demanded to fly sixty combat missions. It was his personal war experience that solidified his lifelong opposition to war. He began his college education in New York University after returning from the WWII and obtained a M.A. from Columbia University. Since 1958, he worked as an English instructor teaching English fiction and drama writing at Pennsylvania State University. In December, 1999, he died of a heart attack.
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