Norman Mailer at 100
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Norman Mailer at 100

Conversations, Correlations, Confrontations

  1. 232 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Norman Mailer at 100

Conversations, Correlations, Confrontations

About this book

Winner of the Robert F. Lucid Award for Mailer Studies Norman Mailer at 100 celebrates the author's centenary in 2023 and the seventy-fifth anniversary of the publication of his bestselling debut novel, The Naked and the Dead, by illustrating how Mailer remains a provocative presence in American letters. Novelist and Mailer scholar Robert J. Begiebing lays out how this polymath author's work makes vital contributions to the larger American literary landscape, encompassing the debates of the nation's founders, the traditions of Western Romanticism, and the juggernaut of twentieth-century modernism. The book includes six critical essays, two creative dialogues featuring Walt Whitman and Ernest Hemingway, and Begiebing's own interview with Mailer from 1983. Each piece pairs Mailer with a critical interlocutor whose work offers telling revelations about his ideas and art, among them Ralph Waldo Emerson, Carl Jung, Kate Millett, and Joan Didion. By encouraging a reconsideration of his career from its beginnings to his final books in the early twenty-first century, Norman Mailer at 100 forges a new path toward appreciating the author's achievements that underscores the extent to which his work can help us confront the challenges of today.

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Information

Publisher
LSU Press
Year
2022
eBook ISBN
9780807178959
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Essays
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. CONTENTS
  6. PREFACE
  7. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  8. 1. MAILER AND HEMINGWAY: Epistolary Backgrounds to Their Generational War Novels
  9. 2. LIPTONā€™S JOURNAL: Mailerā€™s Quest for Wholeness and Renewal
  10. 3. MAILER AND MILLETT: Sex Prison
  11. 4. MAILER AND DIDION: Against Prevailing Winds
  12. 5. MAILER AND EMERSON: Liptonā€™s Journal and the Dissident Soul
  13. 6. MAILER AND WHITMAN: The Interview on Democracy in America
  14. 7. TWELFTH ROUND: Mailer on Boyhood, Harvard, and Ancient Evenings
  15. 8. ERNEST AND NORMAN: A Dramatic Dialogue in Two Acts
  16. 9. MAILER AND JOSEPH ELLIS: Unsettling Dialogues on Democracy
  17. WORKS CITED
  18. INDEX