Catch-22 (1961): Library Resources

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Search the Library Catalog for the following reference titles that contain material about Jospeh Heller's Catch-22. These titles may be available in other college or public libraries.

• American Diversity, American Identity: The Lives and Works of 145 Writers Who Define the American Experience
• American Writers [vol 3; supl 4, part 1]
• Classic Cult Fiction: A Companion to Popular Cult Literature
• Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC) - Contains passages from literary criticism originally published in books and journals
  • [vols 1, 3, 5, 8, 11, 36, 63] - look for Catch-22 in the Cumulative Title Index, a separate paperback index that accompanies this multi-volume work
  • [vol 196] - locate the topical essay "Contemporary Black Humor"
• Critical Survey of Long Fiction [vols 3, 8]
• Cyclopedia of Literary Characters [vol 1]
• Cyclopedia of Literary Places [vol 1]
• Cyclopedia of World Authors [vol 2]
• Joseph Heller's Catch-22
• Literature and Its Times [vol 4]
• Masterplots [vol 2]
• Notable American Novelists [vol 2]
• Novels for Students [vol 1]
• Survey of Contemporary Literature [vol 1]
• Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism  (TCLC)- Contains passages from literary criticism originally published in books and journals
  • [vol 54] - locate the topical essay "American Black Humor Fiction"
  • [vol 78] - locate the topical essay "Death in Literature"
  • [vol 90] - locate the topical essay "The City and Literature"
  • [vol 94] - locate the topical essay "Politics and Literature"
  • [vol 131] - locate the "Special Commissioned Essay on Catch-22 by Joseph Heller"
• Understanding the Literature of World War II: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents

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