| Description |
x, 213 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Modern critical views |
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Modern critical views.
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| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 205-206. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Summary |
Essays to help you understand and appreciate the works of Norman Mailer. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Harold Bloom -- The angels are white / Gore Vidal -- The early novels / Richard Foster -- The aesthetics of Norman Mailer / Jack Richards on -- On the parapet / Tony Tanner -- Mailer's new style / Robert Langbaum -- My Mailer problem / Germaine Greer -- Male chauvinist? / Joyce Carol Oates -- The minority within / Richard Poirier -- The naked, the dead, and the machine / Randall H. Waldron -- The armies of the night / Robert Merrill -- The executioner's song / John Garvey -- The taking of the moon / Alvin B. Kernan -- Sex, creativity and God / Jessica Gerson -- The prisoner as creator in The executioner's song / Judith A. Scheffler -- Norman in Egypt: Ancient evenings / Harold Bloom. |
| Subject |
Mailer, Norman -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| Added Author |
Bloom, Harold.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Norman Mailer. New York : Chelsea House Publishers, 1986 (OCoLC)557973034 |
| ISBN |
0877546568 |
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9780877546566 |
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