, Catch-22 and the of War:

A Selective Bibliography

Compiled by Professor Christine S. Fagan and Adam Riccitelli In conjunction with the Eleventh Annual Professor John Howard Birss, Jr. Memorial Lecture February 2011

Many of these titles were acquired through the Professor John Howard Birss, Jr. Memorial Library Fund

Joseph Heller and Catch-22:

A Selective Bibliography

CONTENTS

Heller, Joseph ...... 1 Works authored by Joseph Heller

Heller, Joseph ...... 2 Works about Joseph Heller

War and Literature ...... 3 Works about War and Literature

War in Literature ...... 4 Works about War in Literature

Heller, Joseph

(Author)

Catch-22. Dir. . Prod. John Calley and Martin Ransohoff. Perf. Martin Sheen, Jon Voigt, ,

Martin Balsam, and . Hollywood:Paramount, 2001. DVD.

Heller, Joseph. Catch-22. New York: Knopf, 1995.

---. Catch-22: A Dramatization. New York: Delacorte Press, 1973.

---. Catch-22: A . New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961.

---. Catch as Catch can: The Collected Stories and Other Writings. Eds. Matthew J. Bruccoli and Park Bucker. New

York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.

---. Closing Time: A Novel. New York. Simon & Schuster, 1994.

---. . 1st trade ed. New York: Knopf: Distributed by Random House, 1984.

---. . New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979.

---. . New York: Putnam, 1988.

---. Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man. London, Scribner, 2000.

---. . New York: Knopf, 1974.

---. We Bombed in New Haven; a . New York: Knopf, 1968.

---. We Bombed in New Haven: A Play in Two Acts. New York: S. French, 1969.

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Heller, Joseph

(Subject)

Bloom, Harold. Joseph Heller's Catch-22. Philadelphia:Chelsea House Publishers, 2001.

Bruccoli, Matthew J., and Park Bucker. Joseph Heller: A Descriptive Bibliography. Pittsburgh: University of

Pittsburgh Press, 2002.

Craig, M. Tilting at Mortality: Narrative Strategies in Joseph Heller's . Detroit: Wayne State University

Press, 1997.

Heller, Joseph. Now and Then: From to here. 1st trade ed. New York: Knopf, 1998.

Heller, Joseph and Speed Vogel. No Laughing Matter. New York: Putnam, 1986.

Kiley, Frederick T and Walter McDonald, eds. A Catch-22 Casebook. New York: Crowell, 1973.

Keegan, Brenda. Joseph Heller: A Reference Guide. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1978.

Merrill, Robert. Joseph Heller. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1987.

Nagel, James. Critical Essays on Catch-22. Encino: Dickenson Pub. Co., 1974.

---, ed. Critical Essays on Joseph Heller. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1984.

Pinsker, Sanford. Understanding Joseph Heller. Rev. ed. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2009.

Potts, Stephen W. Catch-22: Antiheroic Antinovel. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1989.

Ruderman, Judith. Joseph Heller. New York: Continuum, 1991.

Seed, David. The Fiction of Joseph Heller: Against the Grain. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989.

Sorkin, Adam J, ed. Conversations with Joseph Heller. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993.

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War and Literature

(Subject)

Acton, Carol. Grief in Wartime: Private Pain, Public Discourse. Basingstoke, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Beck, John. Dirty Wars: Landscape, Power, and Waste in Western . Lincoln: University of

Nebraska Press, 2009.

Favret, Mary A. War at a Distance: Romanticism and the Making of Modern Wartime. Princeton: Princeton

University Press, 2010.

Fussell, Paul. The Great War and Modern Memory. New York: Oxford University Press, 1975.

Maravall, Jose A. Utopia and Counterutopia in the "Quixote". Trans. Robert W Felkel. Detroit: Wayne State

University Press, 1991.

Norris, Margot. Writing War in the Twentieth Century. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000.

Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience. Washington, DC: National

Endowment for the Arts, 2006.

Usandizaga , Aránzazu and Andrew Monnickenda, eds. Back to Peace: Reconciliation and Retribution in the

Postwar Period. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007.

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War in Literature

(Subject)

Adams, Jon R. Male Armor: The Soldier-Hero in Contemporary American Culture. Charlottesville: University of

Virginia Press, 2008.

Agnew, Kate and Geoff Fox. Children at War: From the First World War to the Gulf. Continuum, 2001. ebrary.

Alexander, Caroline. The War that Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War. New York :

Viking, 2009.

Baracchi, Claudia. Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato's Republic. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002.

Beidler, Philip D. Re-Writing America: Vietnam Authors in their Generation. Athens: University of Georgia Press,

1991.

Bonadeo, Alfredo. Mark of the Beast: Death and Degradation in the Literature of the Great War. Lexington:

University Press of Kentucky, 1989.

Carpenter, Charles A. Dramatists and the Bomb: American and British Playwrights Confront the Nuclear Age, 1945-

1964. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1999.

Coffee, Neil. The Commerce of War: Exchange and Social Order in Latin Epic. Chicago: University of Chicago

Press, 2009.

Cooke, Miriam. War's Other Voices: Women Writers on the Lebanese Civil War. 1st Syracuse University Press ed.

Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1996.

---.Women and the War Story. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

Croft, Janet Brennan. War and the Works of JRR Tolkien. Westport: Praeger, 2004.

Crotty, Kevin. The Poetics of Supplication: Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994.

Das, Santanu. Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

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Dawes, James. The Language of War: Literature and Culture in the US from the Civil War through World War II.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002.

Echevarria, Antulio J. II. Imagining Future War: The West's Technological Revolution and Visions of Wars to Come,

1880-1914. Westport: Praeger Security International, 2007.

Evans, Stephen S. The Lords of Battle: Image and Reality of the Comitatus in Dark-Age Britain. Rochester: Boydell

Press, 1997.

Fahs, Alice. The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861-1865. Chapel Hill: University

of North Carolina Press, 2001.

Foakes, R.A. Shakespeare and Violence. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Franklin, H. Bruce. War Stars: The Superweapon and the American Imagination. Rev. and expand ed. Amherst:

University of Massachusetts Press, 2008.

Gannon, Charles E. Rumors of War and Infernal Machines : Technomilitary Agenda-Setting in American and British

Speculative Fiction. Lanham: Rowman & Littefield Publishers, 2005.

Goldberg, Nancy Sloan. "Woman, Your Hour is Sounding": Continuity and Change in French Women's Great War

Fiction, 1914-1919. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.

Hackett, Robin, Fred Hauser, and Gay Wachman. At Home and Abroad in the Empire: British Women Write the

1930s. Newark:University of Delaware Press, 2009.

Haytock, Jennifer A. At Home, at War: Domesticity and World War I in American Literature. Columbus: Ohio State

University Press, 2003.

Hungerford, Amy. The Holocaust of Texts: Genocide, Literature, and Personification. Chicago: University of

Chicago Press, 2003.

James, Jennifer C. A Freedom Bought with Blood: African American War Literature from the Civil War to World War

II. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.

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Johnston, Ian C. The Ironies of War: An Introduction to Homer's Iliad. Lanham: University Press of America, 1988.

Jones, Peter G. War and the Novelist: Appraising the American . Columbia: University of Missouri Press,

1976.

Jordan, Heather Bryant. How Will the Heart Endure?: Elizabeth Bowen and the Landscape of War. Ann Arbor:

University of Michigan Press, 1992.

Leonard, Thomas C. Above the Battle: War Making in America from Appomattox to Versailles. New York: Oxford

University Press, 1978.

Materer, Timothy. James Merrill's Apocalypse. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000.

McLoughlin, Kate, ed. The Cambridge Companion to War Writing. Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Melling, Philip H. Vietnam in American Literature. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1990.

Meron, Theodor. Bloody Constraint: War and Chivalry in Shakespeare. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

ebrary.

---. Henry's Wars and Shakespeare's Laws: Perspectives on the Law of War in the Later Middle Ages. New York:

Oxford University Press. 1993.

Middleton, Peter and Tim Woods. of Memory: History, Time, and Space in Postwar Writing. New

York:Manchester University Press, 2000.

Murrin, Michael. History and Warfare in Renaissance Epic. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.

Paris, Michael. Warrior Nation: Images of War in British Popular Culture, 1850-2000. London: Reaktion, 2000.

Rossi, Andreola. Contexts of War: Manipulation of Genre in Virgilian Battle Narrative. Ann Arbor: University of

Michigan Press, 2004.

Ryan, Maureen. The Other Side of Grief: The Home Front and the Aftermath in American Narratives of the Vietnam

War. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008.

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Talley, Sharon. Ambrose Bierce and the Dance of Death. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2009.

Tatum, James. The Mourner's Song: War and Remembrance from the Iliad to Vietnam. Chicago: University of

Chicago Press, 2003.

Tylee, Claire M. The Great War and Women's Consciousness: Images of Militarism and Womanhood in Women's

Writings, 1914-64. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1990.

Vernon, Alex. Soldiers Once and Still: Ernest Hemingway, James Salter & Tim O'Brien. Iowa City: University of Iowa

Press, 2004.

Warren, Craig A. Scars to Prove it: The Civil War Soldier and American Fiction. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University

Press, 2009.

Wertheim, Albert. Staging the War: American and World War II. Bloomington: Indiana University Press,

2004.

White, R.S. Pacifism and English Literature: Minstrels of Peace. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Whitehead, Winifred. Old Lies Revisited: Young Readers and the Literature of War and Violence. Concord: Pluto

Press, 1991.

Woodland, Malcolm. Wallace Stevens and the Apocalyptic Mode. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2005.

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