| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 203 pages) |
| Series |
American literature readings in the 21st century |
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American literature readings in the 21st century.
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Foreword: Our Byron; Acknowledgments; 1 Absolutely Dauntless: A Quarter-Century of Sex, God, Politics, and Fame; Part I: Sex; 2 From Egypt to Provincetown, By Trump Air: Modernist History and the Return of the Repressed in Ancient Evenings and Tough Guys Don't Dance; 3 Mailer and the "Diet of Reality": Tough Guys Don't Dance and American Values; Part II: God; 4 Mailer's "Gnostic" Gospel; 5 A Jew for Jesus? A Jewish Reading of Norman Mailer's The Gospel According to the Son |
| Summary |
With essays from Mailer's wife and editor, this scholarly volume establishes the writer's literary maturity and dissects the modes of cultural critique employed in his later novels |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Mailer, Norman -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Mailer, Norman fast |
| Subject |
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Whalen-Bridge, John, 1961-
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| ISBN |
9780230109056 |
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0230109055 |
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1349286400 |
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9781349286409 |
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1282909940 |
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9781282909946 |
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9786612909948 |
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6612909943 |
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