Understanding Norman Mailer

The first book of literary criticism to examine this Pulitzer Prize winner's entire body of work

About the author

Maggie McKinley is an associate professor of English at Harper College, where she teaches courses in composition and American literature. She is the author of Masculinity and the Paradox of Violence in American Fiction, 1950-75, and her work has been published in Studies in American Jewish Literature, Philip Roth Studies, and the Mailer Review, among other places. She currently serves as vice president of the Norman Mailer Society.

Summary

As a renowned novelist, journalist, biographer, playwright, speaker, aspiring politician, filmmaker, and public intellectual, Norman Mailer was one of the most prominent American literary and cultural figures of the second half of the twentieth century. Understanding Norman Mailer is the first book of literary criticism to address Mailer's impressive body of work in its entirety.

Product details

• Authors: Maggie McKinley
• Publisher: Univ of south carolina press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781611178050
• ISBN: 978-1-61117-805-0
• No. of pages: 152
• Series: Understanding Contemporary Ame; Understanding Contemporary American Literature; Understanding Contemporary Ame; Understanding Contemporary American Literature
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies