Norman Mailer's later fictions: ancient evenings through castle in the forest

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. INDICE: Foreword: Our Byron; J.Epstein Absolutely Dauntless: A Quarter-century of Sex, God, Politics, and Fame; J.Whalen-Bridge PART I: SEX From Egypt to Provincetown, By Trump Air: The Historical Return of the Repressed in Ancient Evenings and Tough Guys Don't Dance; S.Duguid Mailer and the 'Diet of Reality': Tough Guys Don't Dance and American Values; J.E.Ryan PART II: GOD Mailer's'Gnostic' Gospel; A.Howley A Jew for Jesus? A Jewish Reading of Norman Mailer's The Gospel According to the Son; M.Bernstein Augustinian Evil in Gospel According to the Son and The Castle in the Forest: A Case for Non-Dualism; J.F.L.Partridge PART III: POLITICS Imperial Mailer: Ancient Evenings; A.Howley Spooks and Agencies: Harlot's Ghost and the Culture of Secrecy; B.J.McDonald The Nazi Occult and The Castle in the Forest: Raw History and Fictional Transformation; H.Wolffram PART IV: FAME History Looking at Itself: On the Road with the Mailers and George Plimpton; L.Shainberg Late Mailer: His Writing and Reputation Since Ancient Evenings; J.Whalen-Bridge Afterword: Norman as Editor; N.Mailer

• ISBN: 978-0-230-10024-4
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 224
• Fecha Publicación: 25/05/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés