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- catalog abstract "While most studies of Joseph Heller focus on his two primary works, Catch-22 and Something Happened, Tilting at Mortality considers Heller's entire career, including his latest work, Closing Time. David Craig pursues two complementary tracks: first, he explores the evolution of Heller's essential subject, human mortality; and second, he delineates Heller's artistic development as a novelist. Mortality - in particular the death of children or, alternatively, of wounded innocents - provides Heller with his core story. Each novel emerges as another gesture of comic defiance, each constituting a strident, insistent, angry, sometimes eloquent protest against mortality. Craig's approach - yoking subject matter and narrative strategies - distinguishes this book from others about Heller's work, which essentially thematize. By contrast, Craig uses Heller's abiding concern with mortality to open previously unexplored areas of his fiction. He examines unpublished writings, especially short stories written in the 1940s, for the way in which they anticipate the novels; looks at aspects of Heller's novels that have never been studied; links more systematically Heller's narrative methods and strategies to his authorial intentions; and traces the development of such characteristic concerns as writers and artists, their artistic artifacts, as well as Heller's own authorial self-consciousness. Craig's book scrutinizes Heller's entire career by examining each novel on its own terms and not by measuring it against Catch-22.".
- catalog contributor b10268771.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 308-323) and index.".
- catalog description "The short stories : uncertain first steps -- Catch-22 : locating the wound, telling the tale -- Something happened : Heller's great monologue -- Good as gold : "writing is really performing for people" -- God knows : possibility and constraint -- Picture this : analogical relationships and complementary truths -- Closing time : sequel and personal reflection.".
- catalog description "While most studies of Joseph Heller focus on his two primary works, Catch-22 and Something Happened, Tilting at Mortality considers Heller's entire career, including his latest work, Closing Time. David Craig pursues two complementary tracks: first, he explores the evolution of Heller's essential subject, human mortality; and second, he delineates Heller's artistic development as a novelist. Mortality - in particular the death of children or, alternatively, of wounded innocents - provides Heller with his core story. Each novel emerges as another gesture of comic defiance, each constituting a strident, insistent, angry, sometimes eloquent protest against mortality. Craig's approach - yoking subject matter and narrative strategies - distinguishes this book from others about Heller's work, which essentially thematize. By contrast, Craig uses Heller's abiding concern with mortality to open previously unexplored areas of his fiction. He examines unpublished writings, especially short stories written in the 1940s, for the way in which they anticipate the novels; looks at aspects of Heller's novels that have never been studied; links more systematically Heller's narrative methods and strategies to his authorial intentions; and traces the development of such characteristic concerns as writers and artists, their artistic artifacts, as well as Heller's own authorial self-consciousness. Craig's book scrutinizes Heller's entire career by examining each novel on its own terms and not by measuring it against Catch-22.".
- catalog extent "330 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Tilting at mortality.".
- catalog identifier "0814326536".
- catalog isFormatOf "Tilting at mortality.".
- catalog isPartOf "Humor in life and letters series".
- catalog isPartOf "Humor in life and letters.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University Press,".
- catalog relation "Tilting at mortality.".
- catalog subject "813/.54 21".
- catalog subject "Fiction Technique.".
- catalog subject "Heller, Joseph Technique.".
- catalog subject "Humorous stories, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Narration (Rhetoric) History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Narration (Rhetoric)".
- catalog subject "PS3558.E476 Z6 1997".
- catalog tableOfContents "The short stories : uncertain first steps -- Catch-22 : locating the wound, telling the tale -- Something happened : Heller's great monologue -- Good as gold : "writing is really performing for people" -- God knows : possibility and constraint -- Picture this : analogical relationships and complementary truths -- Closing time : sequel and personal reflection.".
- catalog title "Tilting at mortality : narrative strategies in Joseph Heller's fiction / David M. Craig.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".