The Catch of the Hyperreal: Yossarian and the Ideological Vicissitudes of Hyperreality
Hyperreality is a key term in Jean Baudrillard’s cultural theory, designating a phase in the development of image where it “masks the absence of a profound reality.” The ambiance of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 (1961) closely corresponds to Baudrillard’s notion of the hyperreal as images persist to prec...
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Lodz University Press
2018-10-01
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| Series: | Text Matters |
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| Online Access: | https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/textmatters/article/view/3753 |