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Norman Mailer
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Author : Harold Bloom
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2003
Norman Mailer written by Harold Bloom and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with categories.
An American novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter and film director, Norman Mailer won the Pulitzer Prize twice and the National Book Award once. Along with Joan Didion, Truman Capote, and Tom Wolfe, Mailer was a practitioner of New Journalism, a genre which encompassed the essay and other nonfiction writing.
Norman Mailer
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Author : Philip H. Bufithis
language : en
Publisher: Frederick Ungar
Release Date : 1978
Norman Mailer written by Philip H. Bufithis and has been published by Frederick Ungar this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Lives Of Norman Mailer
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Author : Carl Edmund Rollyson
language : en
Publisher: Paragon House Publishers
Release Date : 1991
The Lives Of Norman Mailer written by Carl Edmund Rollyson and has been published by Paragon House Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Through a chronological critique of Mailer's major novels, essays, and reportage, Carl Rollyson observes that Mailer has always used his mutability to explore themes of American identity and to cut across the boundaries of fact and fiction. This controversial expose shows how inseparable the writer and his work have become. 8 pages of photographs.
Norman Mailer In Context
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Author : Maggie McKinley
language : en
Publisher: Literature in Context
Release Date : 2021-08-26
Norman Mailer In Context written by Maggie McKinley and has been published by Literature in Context this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-26 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This volume offers new insight into the contextual background and literary-historical impact of Norman Mailer's body of work.
Norman Mailer
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Author : Robert Merrill
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Release Date : 1978
Norman Mailer written by Robert Merrill and has been published by Macmillan Reference USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Literary Criticism categories.
It is easy to hold an opinion about Norman Mailer without having read a single sentence he has written. His tumultuous personal life and provocative opinions on contemporary social issues may at one time have made him, in his own words, the second most unpopular man in America, surpassed only by Richard Nixon. What is difficult is to hold an opinion about Mailer's writing that is not influenced by his image as a public figure. Robert Merrill's Norman Mailer Revisited, while acknowledging the unavoidable connection between Mailer's life and his works, screens out distracting gossip and biographical speculation to concentrate on a long overdue assessment of Mailer's aesthetic achievements. Critics assume "Mailer's books will not sustain detailed aesthetic consideration", Merrill writes, but it is "only by making these aesthetic distinctions" that we will "ever arrive at a just assessment of Mailer's importance as a writer?'. Three common assumptions about Mailer are that his ideas are more interesting than his art, his personality is more interesting than anything he has written, and his substantial literary gift has been squandered on works that fail precisely because Mailer is too little the conscious artist. By focusing on literary structure and narrative form rather than theme and the influence of Mailer's personal biography, Merrill provides a basis for distinguishing Mailer's most successful work from his frequent failures and for comparing Mailer's creative output with that of his contemporaries. Merrill addresses the gamut of Mailer's literary intentions over the 40-odd years of his career: from trivial publicizing to serious contemplation of world-shaking issues. He recognizesMailer's uneven accomplishment, ranging from almost unreadable pontification to well-shaped, considered works such as The Naked and the Dead, The Deer Park, Armies of the Night, and The Executioner's Song. Merrill speculates convincingly on the reasons Mailer was unable to find subjects to follow up his spectacular success in creating a "nonfiction novel": Armies of the Night, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1969, and on the limitations of the genre. In assessing Mailer's entire fiction and nonfiction output, Merrill ultimately places him among the handful of writers who have most influenced both genres since World War II. Many critics agree on Mailer's importance as a cultural icon yet easily dismiss the possibility that he will influence future generations of writers and thinkers. Merrill argues that the literary and artistic merits of Mailer's work will survive his reputation as the "wild man of letters".
Selected Letters Of Norman Mailer
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Author : Norman Mailer
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2014-12-02
Selected Letters Of Norman Mailer written by Norman Mailer and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-02 with Literary Collections categories.
A genuine literary event—an illuminating collection of correspondence from one of the most acclaimed American writers of all time Over the course of a nearly sixty-year career, Norman Mailer wrote more than 30 novels, essay collections, and nonfiction books. Yet nowhere was he more prolific—or more exposed—than in his letters. All told, Mailer crafted more than 45,000 pieces of correspondence (approximately 20 million words), many of them deeply personal, keeping a copy of almost every one. Now the best of these are published—most for the first time—in one remarkable volume that spans seven decades and, it seems, several lifetimes. Together they form a stunning autobiographical portrait of one of the most original, provocative, and outspoken public intellectuals of the twentieth century. Compiled by Mailer’s authorized biographer, J. Michael Lennon, and organized by decade, Selected Letters of Norman Mailer features the most fascinating of Mailer’s missives from 1940 to 2007—letters to his family and friends, to fans and fellow writers (including Truman Capote, James Baldwin, and Philip Roth), to political figures from Henry Kissinger to Bill and Hillary Clinton, and to such cultural icons as John Lennon, Marlon Brando, and even Monica Lewinsky. Here is Mailer the precocious Harvard undergraduate, writing home to his parents for the first time and worrying that his acceptances by literary magazines were “all happening too easy.” Here, too, is Mailer the soldier, confronting the violence of war in the Pacific, which would become the subject of his masterly debut novel, The Naked and the Dead: “[I’m] amazed how casually it fits into . . . daily life, how very unhorrible it all is.” Mailer the international celebrity pledges to William Styron, “I’m going to write every day, and like Lot’s Wife I’m consigning myself to a pillar of salt if I dare to look back,” while the 1980s Mailer agonizes over the fallout from his ill-fated friendship with Jack Henry Abbott, the murderer who became his literary protégé. (“The continuation of our relationship was depressing for both of us,” he confesses to Joyce Carol Oates.) At last, he finds domestic—and erotic—bliss in the arms of his sixth wife, Norris Church (“We bounce into each other like sunlight”). Whether he is reflecting on the Kennedy assassination, assessing the merits of authors from Fitzgerald to Proust, or threatening to pummel William Styron, the brilliant, pugnacious Norman Mailer comes alive again in these letters. The myriad faces of this artist and activist, lover and fighter, public figure and private man, are laid bare in this collection as never before. Praise for Selected Letters of Norman Mailer “Extraordinary.”—Vanity Fair “As massive as the life they document . . . the autobiography [Mailer] never wrote . . . a kind of map, from the hills and rice paddies of the Philippines through every victory and defeat for the rest of the century and beyond.”—Esquire “The shards and winks at Mailer’s own past that are scattered throughout the letters . . . are so tantalizing. They glitter throughout like unrefined jewels that Mailer took to the grave.”—The New Yorker “Indispensable . . . a subtle document of an unsubtle man’s wit and erudition, even (or especially) when it’s wielded as a weapon.”—New York “Umpteen pleasures to pluck out and roll between your teeth, like seeds from a pomegranate.”—The New York Times
Conversations With Norman Mailer
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Author : Norman Mailer
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 1988
Conversations With Norman Mailer written by Norman Mailer and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In twenty eight interviews this great American writer rises to the occasion and is at his sharpest in conversations with Lillian Ross, Marshall McLuhan, Malcolm Muggeridge, William F. Buckley, Jr., and George Plimpton.
The Short Fiction Of Norman Mailer
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Author : Norman Mailer
language : en
Publisher: New York : Dell
Release Date : 1967
The Short Fiction Of Norman Mailer written by Norman Mailer and has been published by New York : Dell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Fiction categories.
Noveller.
Norman Mailer A Double Life
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Author : J. Michael Lennon
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2014-10-28
Norman Mailer A Double Life written by J. Michael Lennon and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [907]-914) and index.
Norman Mailer The Naked And The Dead Selected Letters 1945 1946 Loa 364
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Author : Norman Mailer
language : en
Publisher: Library of America
Release Date : 2023-01-10
Norman Mailer The Naked And The Dead Selected Letters 1945 1946 Loa 364 written by Norman Mailer and has been published by Library of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-10 with Fiction categories.
A landmark in the modern literature of war by a still-controversial literary icon Includes a selection of letters—nine never before published—that reveal the real life roots of one of the greatest American debut novels of the last century Nearly universally praised upon publication as an achievement inviting comparison with Tolstoy and Hemingway, Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead is not just a monumental war novel but also a devastating antiwar novel, exposing the primal nature of power through the interplay of a platoon of soldiers on an impossible and ultimately pointless mission on an obscure island in the Pacific during World War II. Written just after the war ended, in the early days of the emerging Cold War, the novel daringly engages with the authoritarian impulses in the American character. To celebrate and commemorate the centennial of Mailer’s birth and the 75th anniversary of the publication of his unforgettable debut novel, this expanded collector’s edition includes a selection of 23 letters (all but four from Mailer to his first wife, Beatrice) chosen by Mailer biographer J. Michael Lennon that reveals the keen insight and powerful ambition of a brilliant young writer grappling with the challenge of converting the weight of experience into art.