序
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Making of Joseph Heller as a Postmodernist
Writer：HiS Mind and Art
A．Joseph Heller’S Childhood IJife
B．Joseph Heller’S Views on Art
Chapter 2 The Absurdity of Postmodern American Society
Deconstructed in HeHer’S Fiction
A．Absurdity Prevailing as Normality in Catch 22：Heller’S
Deconstruction of the Military Bureaucracy
B．The Company’S Pervasive Absurdity：Heller’S Deconstruction of the Corporate Establishment in Something Happened
Chapter 3 The Grotesqueness of the Postmodernist Texts
Constructed in Heller’S Fiction
A．Black Humor in Catch．22
B．Dialogism in No Laughing Matter
C．Carnivalization in Closing Time
D．Decanonization in God Knows
E．Hybridization in Good as Gold and Picture This
F．Metaftction in Portrait ofan Artist．as nn 0ld Man
Chapter 4 The Comparisons Between Heller and Other
Postmodern Writers
A．Heller’S Black Humor Stressing Irrationality and Absurdity
B．Vonnegut’S Black Humor Leaning to Cynicism
C．Barth’S Black Humor Exercising Farce and Parody
D．Pynchon’S Black Humor Centering Entropy
Conclusion
Works Cited
附录一 狂欢化视角中的《最后一幕》
附录二 颠覆《圣经》之作
附录三 我国学者对海勒的解读和接受
后记
