Norman Mailer in context / edited by Maggie McKinley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McKinley, Maggie, editor.

Series:

Literature in Context.

Literature in context

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mailer, Norman--Criticism and interpretation.

Mailer, Norman.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 400 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

This volume offers new insight into the breadth of contexts that inform Norman Mailer's body of work. It examines important literary, critical, theoretical, cultural, and historical frameworks for Mailer's writing, highlighting the ways his work reflects the concerns of twentieth and twenty-first century America. This book traces Mailer's literary influences; his contributions to a variety of literary genres; his participation in the American political sphere; the philosophical, religious, and gendered contexts that shape his work; and the iconic American figures he profiled. The book concludes with reflections on Mailer's literary and cultural legacy, emphasizing his advocacy for literary freedom and the contemporary resonance of his work.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Title page

Copyright information

Contents

Notes on Contributors

A Note on References and Abbreviations

Introduction

Notes

Part I Literary Influences

Chapter 1 Early Influences

John Dos Passos, James Farrell, and John Steinbeck

Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and F. Scott Fitzgerald

Theodore Dreiser, William Faulkner, and Thomas Wolfe

James Joyce, Henry Miller, and D. H. Lawrence

Walt Whitman, Stendhal, and Marcel Proust

Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Søren Kierkegaard

Some Conclusions

Chapter 2 Mailer and Hemingway

Mailer and Hemingway during the 1940s

Mailer and Hemingway during the 1950s

Mailer and Hemingway after 1960

Chapter 3 Friendships and Feuds

Mailer and Jones: ''The Touchdown Twins''

William Styron and the ''Styron Style''

Gore Vidal and the Headbutt Heard ''Round the World''

Diana Trilling: Prisoner of Sex

William F. Buckley: ''The Difficult Friendship''

Coda

Part II Form and Genre

Chapter 4 New Journalism

Chapter 5 Essays and Columns

Chapter 6 The Novel

Configurations of the Ego

Existential Edges

Visuals and Vignettes

Chapter 7 Criticism

Mailer and Film

Chapter 8 Film

Exploring Being: Wild 90 and Beyond the Law (1968)

Exploring Reality: Maidstone (1970) and Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987)

Chapter 9 Modernism

Persona

Worldview

Work

Chapter 10 Postmodernism

Part III Political Contexts

Chapter 11 Marxism and Malaquais

Chapter 12 JFK and Political Heroism

Chapter 13 The Vietnam War

Chapter 14 1968 Political Conventions

Chapter 15 Left Conservatism

Part IV Philosophical and Cultural Contexts

Chapter 16 Totalitarianism

Notes.

Chapter 17 The Hipster

Chapter 18 Existentialism and Manichaeism

Chapter 19 Technology

The 1950s

Mood and Shock

Technology and Mood in New Journalism

Chapter 20 Violence

Chapter 21 Race

The White Negro and ''Black Illiteracy''

''The Time of Her Time'' and An American Dream

Black Power and Neo-African Civilization

Chapter 22 Judaism

Part V Gender and Sexuality

Chapter 23 Masculinity

Chapter 24 The Second Wave Feminist Movement

Chapter 25 Sex and Sexuality

Part VI Profiles and Literary Biographies

Chapter 26 Marilyn Monroe

Chapter 27 Muhammad Ali

Chapter 28 Picasso

Chapter 29 The Criminal Mind: Gary Gilmore and Lee Harvey Oswald

Part VII Mailer's Legacy

Chapter 30 Literary Activism

Chapter 31 Mailer in Translation

Chapter 32 Letters

Chapter 33 Mailer Studies in the Twenty-First Century

Chapter 34 Political Resonance

Afterword: Mailer after #MeToo

Primary Bibliography

Novels, Nonfiction, Drama, and Poetry

Collections and Compilations

Selected Secondary Bibliography

Biographies

Monographs

Edited Collections

Articles and Book Chapters

Literary Influences

Form and Genre

Political Contexts

Philosophical and Cultural Contexts

Gender and Sexuality

Profiles and Literary Biographies

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Aug 2021).

ISBN:

1-108-80467-5

1-108-80971-5

1-108-77441-5

OCLC:

1253442726