Chapter 1 The Making of Joseph Heller as a Postmodernist Writer:His Mind and Art 16
A．Joseph Heller's Childhood Life 16
B．Joseph Heller's Views on Art 22
Chapter 2 The Absurdity of Postmodern American Society Deconstructed in Heller's Fiction 32
A．Absurdity Prevailing as Normality in Catch- 22:Heller's Deconstruction of the Military Bureaucracy 33
B．The Company's Pervasive Absurdity:Heller's Deconstruction of the Corporate Establishment in Something Happened 39
Chapter 3 The Grotesqueness of the Postmodernist Texts Constructed in Heller's Fiction 52
A．Black Humor in Catch-22 54
B．Dialogism in No Laughing Matter 63
C．Carnivalization in Closing Time 70
D．Decanonization in God Knows 83
E．Hybridization in Good as Gold and Picture This 96
F．Metafiction in Portrait of an Artist,as an Old Man 109
Chapter 4 The Comparisons Between Heller and Other Postmodern Writers 122
A．Heller's Black Humor Stressing Irrationality and Absurdity 125
B．Vonnegut's Black Humor Leaning to Cynicism 132
C．Barth's Black Humor Exercising Farce and Parody 138
D．Pynchon's Black Humor Centering Entropy 143
Conclusion 152
Works Cited 162
附录一 狂欢化视角中的《最后一幕》 176
附录二 颠覆《圣经》之作 189
附录三 我国学者对海勒的解读和接受 199
后记 215