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Norman Mailer, a collection of critical essays
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ISBN: 0135455413 0135455332 Year: 1972 Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, N.J.

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Norman Mailer in context
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ISBN: 1108774415 1108804675 1108809715 1108477666 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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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.

Norman Mailer's novels
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ISBN: 906203912X 9004488006 Year: 1979 Publisher: Amsterdam


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Elegant Jeremiahs
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ISBN: 1138852228 1138854921 1315720663 1317519639 1317519647 9781317519645 9781317519638 9781315720661 9781317519621 1317519620 9781138852228 Year: 2015 Publisher: New York, NY


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Mankind in Barbary : the individual and society in the novels of Norman Mailer
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ISBN: 0874511186 9780874511185 Year: 1975 Publisher: Hanover, N.H. : Published for the University of Vermont by the University Press of New England,


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The Participatory Journalism of Michael Herr, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson, and Joan Didion : Creating New Reporting Styles
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ISBN: 0773421572 9780773421578 Year: 2011 Publisher: Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press,

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Among New Journalists of the 1960s-1970s, Michael Herr, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson, and Joan Didion approached their subjects by placing themselves in the center of their narratives as protagonists and by openly acknowledging their subjective impressions of the events they reported. Unlike journalists who adopted the conventions of detachment and objectivity, these New Journalists employed their subjective, literary styles to construct their narrative personae and to dramatize not only the events like the Vietnam War and the 1972 presidential campaign but their direct participation in t

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