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Joseph Heller

Scope|Circulating Books|Critical Sources|Periodicals, Journals, & Trade Publications|Web Sites

Scope:  Joseph Heller pursued a career as a college professor of English at New York University. He was an instructor of fiction and dramatic writing at Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania. His novel Catch-22 is considered one of the most important novels of the time. This novel has been adapted for film.

CIRCULATING BOOKS

Books of Joseph Heller's works are listed in our on-line catalog under "Heller, Joseph and under individual titles, i.e. Something Happened.

Books written by and about Joseph Heller have the call number(s):
PS 3558 .E476
PZ4.H47665

Some representative books from the Circulating collection that are located upstairs in the library are:

Pinscher, Sanford. Understanding Joseph Heller. Columbia, S.C: University of South Carolina Press, 1991.

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

CRITICAL SOURCES

There are books in the Reference Collection that do not circulate, but pages may be photocopied.

The following titles are appropriate to this topic:

REF PS 21.D5 Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 2 American Novelists Since World War II

REF PS 21.D5 Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 28 Twentieth Century American- Jewish Fiction Writers

REF PN 771.M3 1991 Major 20th Century Writers

REF PS 94.M34 1993 Masterpieces of American Literature

PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE PUBLICATIONS

Click the links for a list of full text journals available through our databases in:

WEB SITES

Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu

Literary Resources on the Net
http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/american.html

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Updated 02/08/2007