Postmodern Irony and Humor in Catch-22 by Joseph Heller and Their Parallels in Postmodern Music and Art

Authors

  • Mirjana M. Knežević

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18485/bells.2011.3.14

Keywords:

irony, humor, postmodernism, Joseph Heller, Catch-22, Wayne Booth

Abstract

This essay explores the concept of irony and the ways in which this mode is reflected in such distant forms of aesthetic expression as literature, music and visual arts, especially within the postmodern era which not only embraces, but also intensifies and influences this long-established stylistic technique. With this aim, this essay takes Joseph Heller’s novel Catch-22 as a representative example of the postmodern literature, as well as Kurt Vonnegut’s graphic Trout in Cohoes, Rupert Holms’s The Pina Colada Song and Leroy Anderson’s The Waltzing Cat as corresponding examples of postmodern visual and music arts respectively. The theoretical framework is based on Wayne Booth’s concept of irony, and also includes humor as an accompanying element of ironic expression.

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Published

2011-11-13

How to Cite

Knežević, M. M. . (2011). Postmodern Irony and Humor in Catch-22 by Joseph Heller and Their Parallels in Postmodern Music and Art. Belgrade English Language and Literature Studies, 3(1), 229–247. https://doi.org/10.18485/bells.2011.3.14

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2011): BELLS - volume 3

Section

LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES

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