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.a(chǎn)s 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 附錄一 狂歡化視角中的《最后一幕》 附錄二 顛覆《圣經(jīng)》之作 附錄三 我國學(xué)者對海勒的解讀和接受 后記