Understanding Norman Mailer /

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Author / Creator:	McKinley, Maggie, author.
Imprint:	Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2017]
Description:	1 online resource (137 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Understanding Contemporary American Literature Understanding contemporary American literature.
Subject:	Mailer, Norman -- Criticism and interpretation. Mailer, Norman. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11758498

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ISBN:	9781611178067 1611178061 1611178053 9781611178050
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 05, 2017).
Summary:	"The book begins with a brief biographical introduction touching on Mailer's formative experiences, pivotal friendships, and intellectual and cultural concerns. Mailer's major works are covered as well as the less-celebrated and more experimental works of the 1980s and 1990s. His last work of fiction, The Castle in the Forest, is also discussed"--
Other form:	Print version: McKinley, Maggie. Understanding Norman Mailer. Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 2017 9781611178050

Table of Contents:

Cover
UNDERSTANDING NORMAN MAILER
Title
Copyright
Dedication
CONTENTS
Series Editorâ#x80;#x99;s Preface
Chapter 1 Understanding Norman Mailer
Chapter 2 The Naked and the Dead and Its Aftermath
Chapter 3 An American Voice and An American Dream
Chapter 4 Mailer on War, Women, Politics, and Film
Chapter 5 Exploring American Mysteries: Mailerâ#x80;#x99;s Interpretive Biographies
Chapter 6 The Divided Self across Genre: Novels of the 1980s and 1990s
Chapter 7 Concluding with Questions
Notes
Bibliography

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