TY  - BOOK
AU  - Andrew Wilson
PY  - 2021
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Norman Mailer
T2  - An American Aesthetic
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1104285
N2  - This book is a comprehensive study of the work of the American author Norman Mailer, charting his response to critical events in his country’s development since 1945. Focusing on Mailer’s descriptions of World War II, 1960s counter-culture, the Vietnam War, the Apollo 11 mission and the execution of Gary Gilmore in Utah in 1977, the book analyses the native vernaculars in ten of his most critically acclaimed works. Moving beyond politically orientated scholarship, the author outlines Mailer’s New York, American GI, Mid-West and Southern styles, contextualising his prose against earlier American authors, including Henry Adams, Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos, and positioning his writing alongside contemporary notables such as Joan Didion, William Burroughs and Truman Capote. Incorporating over forty years of scholarship in the form of articles, reviews and interviews, this book pinpoints the American attributes in Mailer’s writing with a view to identifying trends in post-war American literary movements, the Beat Generation, New Journalism and Pop Art among others.
KW  - Mailer, Norman, Counter-Culture, Burrough, Capote, Post-War Literary movement
LA  - English
ER  -