Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-241) and index
Norman Mailer
Published:
c2003
Publisher:
Chelsea House Publishers, Philadelphia
- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world--from the English medievalists to contemporary writers-...
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- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world--from the English medievalists to contemporary writers- Introductory essay by Harold Bloom
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Cover; Contents; Editor's Note; Introduction; The Taking of the Moon; Norman in Egypt; In Pyramid and Palace; Norman Mailer After Forty Years; A Small Trumpet of Defiance; Marxisms on Trial: Barbary Shore; From Lady Chatterley's Lover to The Deer Park; Romantic Self-Creations: Mailer and Gilmore in The Executioner's Song; Mailer's Psychology of Machines; Mailer's Tough Guys Don't Dance and the Detective Traditions; Norman Mailer and the Radical Text; The Hot Breath of the Future: The Naked and the Dead; The Myth of the American Adamin Late Mailer; Chronology; Contributors; Bibliography