Norman Mailer at 100: Conversations, Correlations, Confrontations - Couverture rigide

Begiebing, Robert J.

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ISBN 10 : 0807178136 ISBN 13 : 9780807178133

Editeur : Louisiana State University Press, 2022

Synopsis

Winner of the Robert F. Lucid Award for Mailer Studies

Norman Mailer at 100 celebrates the author's centenary in 2023 and the seventy-fifth anniversary of the publication of his bestselling debut novel, The Naked and the Dead, by illustrating how Mailer remains a provocative presence in American letters. Novelist and Mailer scholar Robert J. Begiebing lays out how this polymath author's work makes vital contributions to the larger American literary landscape, encompassing the debates of the nation's founders, the traditions of Western Romanticism, and the juggernaut of twentieth-century modernism.

The book includes six critical essays, two creative dialogues featuring Walt Whitman and Ernest Hemingway, and Begiebing's own interview with Mailer from 1983. Each piece pairs Mailer with a critical interlocutor whose work offers telling revelations about his ideas and art, among them Ralph Waldo Emerson, Carl Jung, Kate Millett, and Joan Didion. By encouraging a reconsideration of his career from its beginnings to his final books in the early twenty-first century, Norman Mailer at 100 forges a new path toward appreciating the author's achievements that underscores the extent to which his work can help us confront the challenges of today.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Robert J. Begiebing is the author of nine previous books, including two studies of Norman Mailer and four novels. He is professor emeritus of English at Southern New Hampshire University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Louisiana State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0807178136
• ISBN 13: 9780807178133
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 248
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