Abstract:
This abstract is a study of Catch-22 (1961), a specific early document of American
postmodern literature. In particular, this one is going to present the critical
argument on this novel as parallel to the wider concept of the postmodernism.
My claim is that, this novel is going to be treated in accordance with postmodern
thought to paradox, irony, black humor, which is a line between fantasy and reality
and readers of the novel are unsure about the point at which realism fades into
fantasy and a collapsed literary possibility, traditional techniques in literature, for
these literary issues in fact have come out many interpretations. So to attain best
this argument is an approach to Catch-22 of Joseph Heller.
In attempt to, firstly , demonstrate how critics have reduced the potential
meaning of the novel in imposing its own notions of a literary-historical circle and
secondly, how readings of Heller’s characters in the novel can reveal an untapped
possibility for further exploration of the broadest definitions and interpretations of
the project of postmodernism. Through this work will be obviously explained some
of the most essential and basic postmodernist devices especially through the art of
writing and language used.
Not only marginalized, lateral characters will be on the spotlight of observation
and analyses but also the major and protagonist ones will characterize the typical
features of postmodern notion
