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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Donald L Kaufmann, Donald L. Kaufmann
• Publisher: Scholar's Press
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.01.2019
• EAN: 9783639514339
• ISBN: 978-3-639-51433-9
• No. of pages: 412
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 220 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 632 g
• Subject: Guides > Law, job, finance > Letters, rhetoric