《第二十二条军规》的异化主题研究英语语言文学专业论文.docxVIP

i i Acknowledgements I would like to express my sincere gratitude to those who have granted me invaluable help in various stages of the completion of the thesis, though the responsibility of its shortcomings rests with me alone. My deepest gratitude goes first and foremost to my supervisor, Professor Zeng Yanyu, who not only for her constant encouragement and illuminating guidance during the time when this paper was written, but also for her great help with my postgraduate study over the past few years. Her profound insight into literature and her effective guidance have enlightened me in this field, and have led me through all stages of the thesis writing from the formation of the ideas to the arrangement of the structure to the completion of this thesis. It is a great honor for me to be her student. I am also greatly indebted to all my respectable teachers who have provided me with basic knowledge of literature studies in my postgraduate study period, which is the foundation for my research. Once again, I would like to express all my thanks to those who ever give me their friendly assistance, spiritual support and valuable suggestions for the completion of the paper. ii ii Abstract Alienation—a long-existing phenomenon of human existence—has never gone beyond the sight and keen perception of literary writers. As a writer known for his black humor Joseph Heller always shows his concern for the absurd nature of the world and human‘s predicament of alienation in his works. Catch-22 is Heller‘s first and also best-known novel. Heller expresses the same concern in this novel. Ostensibly a ―war novel‖, Catch-22 gives no detailed description of the war. Heller shows the readers the post-war American society by setting Pianosa as the stage. The postwar period is known for the ―cold war‖ and ―McCarthyism‖, which is a decade of considerable repression and insecurity. Postwar Americans have experienced profound pain of alienation. Joseph Heller draws the picture of prevailin