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1、ABriefStudyonBlackHumorinCatch-22ChapterIIntroductionCatch-22isthefirstandmostimportantlongnovelofJosephHeller.Sincecatch-22waspublishedin1961inAmerica,ithasalwaysbeenacrucialpartofmodernliterature.Withthetimepassing,thenovelhasnotbeenoutofdate.Onthecontrary,ita
2、ttractswideattentionsaroundtheworldbecauseofthenovel’stheme,writingstyleandvalue.InChina,anincreasingnumberofscholarswritebooksandessaystoexpounddifferentaspectsofthenovel.Throughdetailedsearchandanalysis,itwasfoundthatatpresentthereareatleast130academicpapersab
3、outCatch-22ontheCDMD(ChineseDoctorandMaster’sDatabase).Amongallthesepapers,48papersfocusonitsthemeandtheauthorand66papersareconcernedwithitswritingskills.SomeothersmainlystudyontheabsurdityaswellasotherthingsrelatedwithCatch-22,forexample,WuShaohui(2006)FreeChoi
4、ceinanAbsurdWorld—AnInterpretationoftheExistentialismandWangYimei(2005)TheGradualReturntoSelf—ATentativeAnalysisofSelf-awarenessinthe20thCentury’sWesternModernistLiterature.Besides,severalpapersareaboutcharactersofCatch-22suchasWanShihua(2006)TheBlackFigureSalon
5、—AnalysisoftheFiguresonCatch-22.Undoubtedlynomatterwhatsubjectsthescholarsstudy,theme,writingskillorothers,itisinevitableforthemtotouchontheliteraturegeneofthisnovel—blackhumor.ThispapermakesatentativestudyontherelationshipbetweenblackhumorandCatch-22.Fromtheper
6、spectiveofblackhumor,theauthorofthispaperistryingtomakeadetailedanalysisonitsmaincharacter,theme,structureandlanguageaimstocomprehensivelydisplaythedeductionofblackhumorinCatch-22andletthereadershaveabetterunderstandingofthisnovel.
ChapterIIGeneralExplanationof
7、theBlackHumorBlackhumoriscreditedtotheAnthologyofBlackHumor,a1939Frenchanthologyof45writerseditedbyAndreBreton.IntheUnitedStates,blackhumorasaliterarygenre13cametoprominenceinthe1950sand1960s.Later,anEnglish-languageanthologyeditedbyBruceJayFriedman,titledBlackH
8、umor,assemblesworksof12writersofthegenre.ItisoneofthemostrepresentativegenresintheAmericanliteraturein1960s.Forinstance,theworksofsuchwritersasKurtVonnegut,ThomasPync