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{{Byline|last=Meloy|first=Michael | {{Byline|last=Meloy|first=Michael|abstract=As early as the mid-1950s, [[Norman Mailer]] was already linking creative expression and sexual performance, using both to construct a vision of masculinity centered in virility and sexual release. ''[[An American Dream]]'' serves as a reflection of these beliefs—the culmination of a paradigm whose inception can be traced to World War II. Mailer’s perception of his relationship to women parallels his relationship to the novel.|url=https://prmlr.us/mr09melo}} | ||
{{quote|The Doors seemed unconvinced that love was brotherhood and the Kama Sutra. The Doors’ music insisted that love was sex and sex was death and therein lay salvation. The Doors were the Norman Mailers of the Top Forty, missionaries of apocalyptic sex.|author=Joan Didion|source=''The White Album''{{sfn|Didion|1979|p=21}} }} | {{quote|The Doors seemed unconvinced that love was brotherhood and the Kama Sutra. The Doors’ music insisted that love was sex and sex was death and therein lay salvation. The Doors were the Norman Mailers of the Top Forty, missionaries of apocalyptic sex.|author=Joan Didion|source=''The White Album''{{sfn|Didion|1979|p=21}} }} | ||
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==Works Cited== | ==Works Cited== | ||
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* {{cite book |last=Clark |first=Susan |date=2000 |title=Cold Warriors: Manliness on Trial in the Rhetoric of the West |url= |location=Carbondale |publisher=Southern Illinois University Press |pages= |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }} | * {{cite book |last=Clark |first=Susan |date=2000 |title=Cold Warriors: Manliness on Trial in the Rhetoric of the West |url= |location=Carbondale |publisher=Southern Illinois University Press |pages= |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }} | ||
* {{cite book |last=Cohan |first=Steve |date=1997 |title=Masked Men: Masculinity and the Movies in the Fifties |url= |location=Bloomington |publisher=Indiana University Press | | * {{cite book |last=Cohan |first=Steve |date=1997 |title=Masked Men: Masculinity and the Movies in the Fifties |url= |location=Bloomington |publisher=Indiana University Press |ref=harv }} | ||
* {{cite book |last=Davidson |first=Michael |date=2004 |title=Guys Like Us: Citing Masculinity in Cold War Poetics |url= |location=Chicago |publisher=University of Chicago Press |pages= |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }} | * {{cite book |last=Davidson |first=Michael |date=2004 |title=Guys Like Us: Citing Masculinity in Cold War Poetics |url= |location=Chicago |publisher=University of Chicago Press |pages= |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }} | ||
* {{cite book |last=Dearborn |first=Mary V. |date=1999 |title=Mailer: A Biography |location=Boston |publisher=Houghton Mifflin |url=https://archive.org/details/mailerbiography00mary |ref=harv }} | * {{cite book |last=Dearborn |first=Mary V. |date=1999 |title=Mailer: A Biography |location=Boston |publisher=Houghton Mifflin |url=https://archive.org/details/mailerbiography00mary |ref=harv }} | ||
* {{cite book |last=Didion |first=Joan |date=1979 |title=The White Album |url= |location=New York |publisher=Noonday |pages= |isbn= |author-link=w:Joan Didion |ref=harv }} | * {{cite book |last=Didion |first=Joan |date=1979 |title=The White Album |url= |location=New York |publisher=Noonday |pages= |isbn= |author-link=w:Joan Didion |ref=harv }} | ||
* {{cite book |last=Gilbert |first=James |date=2005 |title=Men in the Middle: Searching for Masculinity in the 1950s |url= |location=Chicago |publisher=University of Chicago Press |pages= |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }} | * {{cite book |last=Gilbert |first=James |date=2005 |title=Men in the Middle: Searching for Masculinity in the 1950s |url= |location=Chicago |publisher=University of Chicago Press |pages= |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }} | ||
* {{cite book |editor-last=Lennon |editor-first=J. Michael |date=2004 |title=Norman Mailer’s Letters on ''An American Dream'', 1963–1969 |url=https://projectmailer.net/pm/Norman_Mailer%E2%80%99s_Letters_on_An_American_Dream,_1963%E2%80%931969 |location=Shavertown, PA |publisher=Sligo Press | | * {{cite book |editor-last=Lennon |editor-first=J. Michael |date=1988 |title=Conversations with Norman Mailer |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4cNFg8Wghy4C |location=Jackson and London |publisher=U of Mississippi P |author-link=J. Michael Lennon |ref=harv}} | ||
* {{cite book |last=Mailer |first=Adele |date=1997 |title=The Last Party: Scenes from My Life with Norman Mailer |url= |location=New York |publisher=Barricade | | * {{cite book |editor-last=Lennon |editor-first=J. Michael |editor-mask=1 |date=2004 |title=Norman Mailer’s Letters on ''An American Dream'', 1963–1969 |url=https://projectmailer.net/pm/Norman_Mailer%E2%80%99s_Letters_on_An_American_Dream,_1963%E2%80%931969 |location=Shavertown, PA |publisher=Sligo Press |ref=harv }} | ||
* {{cite book |last=Mailer |first=Norman |date=2003 |title=The Spooky Art: Some Thoughts on Writing |url= |location=New York |publisher=Random House |pages= |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }} | * {{cite book |last=Mailer |first=Adele |date=1997 |title=The Last Party: Scenes from My Life with Norman Mailer |url= |location=New York |publisher=Barricade |ref=harv }} | ||
* {{cite book |last=Mailer |first=Norman | | * {{cite book |last=Mailer |first=Norman |date=1965 |title=An American Dream |location=New York |publisher=Vintage |author-link=Norman Mailer |ref=harv }} | ||
* {{cite book |last=Mailer |first=Norman | | * {{cite book |last=Mailer |first=Norman |author-mask=1 |date=2003 |title=The Spooky Art: Some Thoughts on Writing |url= |location=New York |publisher=Random House |pages= |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }} | ||
* {{cite book |last=Mailer |first=Norman |author-mask=1 |date=1959a |chapter=The Time of Her Time |title=Advertisements for Myself |url= |location=New York |publisher=Putnam |pages=478–503 |ref=harv }} | |||
* {{cite book |last=Mailer |first=Norman |author-mask=1 |date=1959 |chapter=The White Negro |title=Advertisements for Myself |url= |location=New York |publisher=Putnam |pages=337–358 |ref=harv }} | |||
* {{cite book |last=McGrady |first=Mike |chapter=Why Are We Interviewing Norman Mailer? |editor-last=Lennon |editor-first=J. Michael |date=1988 |title=Conversations with Norman Mailer |url= |location=Jackson and London |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |series=Literary Conversations |pages=108–117 |ref=harv }} | * {{cite book |last=McGrady |first=Mike |chapter=Why Are We Interviewing Norman Mailer? |editor-last=Lennon |editor-first=J. Michael |date=1988 |title=Conversations with Norman Mailer |url= |location=Jackson and London |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |series=Literary Conversations |pages=108–117 |ref=harv }} | ||
* {{cite book |last=Robinson |first=Sally |date=2000 |title=Marked Men: White Masculinity in Crisis |url= |location=New York |publisher=Columbia University Press |pages= |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }} | * {{cite book |last=Robinson |first=Sally |date=2000 |title=Marked Men: White Masculinity in Crisis |url= |location=New York |publisher=Columbia University Press |pages= |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }} | ||
* {{cite book |last=Schlesinger |first=Arthur Meier, Jr |date=1963 |title=The Politics of Hope |url= |location=Boston |publisher=Houghton Mifflin | | * {{cite book |last=Schlesinger |first=Arthur Meier, Jr |date=1963 |title=The Politics of Hope |url= |location=Boston |publisher=Houghton Mifflin |ref=harv }} | ||
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