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{{Byline|last=Whalen-Bridge|first=John|abstract=Mailer’s innovative device of having a mind-entering demon narrate backgrounds denied to us by the enclosures of history allows Mailer to conflate the epistemological realism of first person narration with the omniscience of third person. Mailer’s Hitler novel recapitulates his karmic unified-field theory of life in a number of ways. We cannot make sense of the last two decades of Mailer’s writing career without paying attention to the ''Castle''’s cavalier wit, which is, at its heart, almost invariably alone.|url=https://prmlr.us/mr08whal}}
{{Byline|last=Whalen-Bridge|first=John|abstract=Mailer’s innovative device of having a mind-entering demon narrate backgrounds denied to us by the enclosures of history allows Mailer to conflate the epistemological realism of first person narration with the omniscience of third person. Mailer’s Hitler novel recapitulates his karmic unified-field theory of life in a number of ways. We cannot make sense of the last two decades of Mailer’s writing career without paying attention to the ''Castle''’s cavalier wit, which is, at its heart, almost invariably alone.|url=https://prmlr.us/mr08whal}}
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features/novels.php|journal=International Herald Tribune|volume=|issue=|date=December 6, 2006|pages=|access-date=3 August 2008|ref=harv }}
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* {{cite journal|last=Gubar|first=Susan|title=Prosopopoeia and Holocaust Poetry in English: Sylvia Plath and Her Contemporaries|url= |journal=The Yale Journal of Criticism|volume=14|issue=1|date=2001|pages=191–215|access-date=|ref=harv }}
* {{cite journal|last=Lennon|first=J. Michael|title=Mailer’s Cosmology|url= |journal=Modern Language Studies|volume=12|issue=3|date=1982|pages=18-29|access-date=|ref=harv }}
* {{cite book|last=Mailer|first= Norman|date=1983|title=Ancient Evenings|url=|location=Boston|publisher=Little Brown|pages= |isbn= |author-link=|ref=harv }}
{{cite book|date=1965|title=An American Dream|location=New York|publisher=Dial|ref=harv }}
{{cite book|date=2007|title=The Castle in the Forest|location=New York|publisher=Random House|ref=harv }}
{{cite book|date=1948|title=The Naked and the Dead|location=New York|publisher=Rinehart|ref=harv }}
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* {{cite journal |last1=Mailer|first1=Norman|last2=Whalen-Bridge|first2=John|title=The Karma of Words: Mailer since Executioner’s
Song|url=|journal=Journal of Modern Literature|volume=30|issue=1|date=2006|pages=1-16|access-date=|ref=harv }}
* {{cite journal|last=McCann|first=Sean|title=The Imperiled Republic: Norman Mailer and the Poetics of Anti-Liberalism|url= |journal=English Literary History|volume=67|issue=1|date=2000|pages=293–336|access-date= |ref=harv }}
* {{cite journal|last=McDonald|first=Brian|title=Post-Holocaust Theodicy, American Imperialism, and the ‘Very Jewish
Jesus’of Norman Mailer’s The Gospel according to the Son|url= |journal=Journal of Modern Literature|volume=30|issue=1|date=2006|pages=78–90|access-date= |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Rorty|first=Richard|date=1989|title=Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity|url= |location=New York|publisher=Cambridge UP|pages= |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }}
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« The Mailer Review • Volume 12 Number 1 • 2018 »
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John Whalen-Bridge
Abstract: Mailer’s innovative device of having a mind-entering demon narrate backgrounds denied to us by the enclosures of history allows Mailer to conflate the epistemological realism of first person narration with the omniscience of third person. Mailer’s Hitler novel recapitulates his karmic unified-field theory of life in a number of ways. We cannot make sense of the last two decades of Mailer’s writing career without paying attention to the Castle’s cavalier wit, which is, at its heart, almost invariably alone.
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