Norman Mailer: Legacy and Literary Americana

Drawing on fifty years of teaching and study, this work by Donald L. Kaufmann examines the legacy of the consummate American writer, Norman Mailer (1923-2007). Kaufmann compares Mailer s achievement to the Literary Naturalists Crane, Norris, London, and Dreiser. He contrasts Hemingway, Dos Passos, Fitzgerald and others, before surveying Mailer s relationship to Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, Existentialism, and Postmodern.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Donald L. Kaufmann is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of South Florida. He is the author of Norman Mailer: The Countdown: The First Twenty Years (Southern Illinois UP, 1969. He has also published essays on Mailer, Updike, Bellow, Hemingway, and other twentieth-century American writers.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Donald L Kaufmann, Donald L. Kaufmann
• Verlag: Scholar's Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 15.01.2019
• EAN: 9783639514339
• ISBN: 978-3-639-51433-9
• Seiten: 412
• Abmessung: 150 mm x 220 mm x 24 mm
• Gewicht: 632 g
• Thema: Ratgeber > Recht, Beruf, Finanzen > Briefe, Rhetorik