The Linguistic Epitome of Paradox as a Means of Expliciting Black Humor in Joseph Heller‟s Catch-22
The Linguistic Epitome of Paradox as a Means of Expliciting Black Humor in Joseph Heller‟s Catch-22

Summary/Abstract: Joseph Heller has learned from Beckett, Camus and Kafka and his style resembles the style of these writers but he is clearly himself a novelist who may be looked upon as one of the most interesting black humourists, mainly through his use of the paradoxical character that lays behind the rule named Catch-22. Paradox is, in fact, the main stylistic means of expressing black humor used by Heller in his novel, Catch-22. This is the reason why the present paper focuses on the linguistic stylistic analysis of black humor as expressed by the catch-22 rule and by other instances of paradox usage all through the novel.

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