An American Dream Expanded/Bibliography

Critical Studies

Shortcut

AAD:Bib

This page is part of
An American Dream Expanded.

Adams, Laura (1977). Existential Battles: the Growth of Norman Mailer. Athens: Ohio UP.
—, ed. (1974). Will the Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up. Port Washington; London: Kennikat Press.
Aldridge, John W. (1966). Time to Murder and Create: The Contemporary Novel in Crisis. New York: David McKay.
Begiebing, Robert J. (1980). Acts of Regeneration: Allegory and Archetype in the Works of Norman Mailer. Columbia; London: University of Missouri Press.
Bloom, Harold, ed. (1986). Norman Mailer. Modern Critical Views. Philadelphia, PA: Chelsea House.
Braudy, Leo, ed. (1972). Norman Mailer: a Collection of Critical Essays. Twentieth Century Views. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Broer, Lawrence R. (2016). "Meta-Modernism in An American Dream". The Mailer Review. 10 (1): 99–116.
Bufithis, Philip (1978). Norman Mailer. New York: Frederick Ungar.
Cotkin, George (2003). Existential America. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press.
Dickstein, Morris (2002). Leopards in the Temple: The Transformation of American Fiction, 1945-1970. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Ehrlich, Robert (1978). Norman Mailer: The Radical as Hipster. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press.
Fetterley, Judith (1986). "An American Dream: 'Hula, Hula,' Said the Witches". In Lennon, J. Michael. Critical Essays on Norman Mailer. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co. pp. 136–144.
— (1978). The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Glenday, Michael K. (1995). Norman Mailer. New York: St. Martins Press.
Glickman, Susan (1982–1983). "The World as Will and Idea: A Comparative Study of An American Dream and Mr. Sammler's Planet". Modern Fiction Studies. 28: 569–582.
Gordon, Andrew (1980). An American Dreamer: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Fiction of Norman Mailer. London: Fairleigh Dickinson UP.
— (1977). "The Modern Dream-Vision: Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams and Mailer's An American Dream". Literature and Psychology. 27 (3): 100–105.
Gutman, Stanley T. (1975). Mankind in Barbary: The Individual and Society in the Novels of Norman Mailer. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England.
Hampton, Jill (1990). Mythic Mailer in An American Dream (M.A.). University of Illinois at Springfield.
Kaufmann, Donald (1969). Norman Mailer: The Countdown (The First Twenty Years). Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.
Langbaum, Robert (Fall 1968). "Mailer's New Style". Novel: 69–78.
— (1970). The Modern Spirit: Essays on the Continuity of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literature. New York: Oxford University Press.
Leeds, Barry H. (1969). The Structured Vision of Norman Mailer. New York: NYU Press.
— (2002). The Enduring Vision of Norman Mailer. Bainbridge Island, Wash.: Pleasure Boat Studio.
— (1993). "Scorsese vs. Mailer: Boxing as Redemption in Raging Bull and An American Dream". (Unpublished Essay): 1–11.
Lennon, J. Michael, ed. (1986). Critical Essays on Norman Mailer. Critical Essays on American Literature. Boston: G. K. Hall.
—, ed. (2004). Norman Mailer's Letters on An American Dream, 1963–1969. Shavertown, PA: Sligo Press. (04.7)
Madden, David, ed. (1970). American Dreams, American Nightmares. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.
McConnell, Frank D. (1977). "Norman Mailer and the Cutting Edge of Style". Four Postwar American Novelists: Bellow, Mailer, Barth and Pynchon. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
McKinley, Maggie (2015). "Existentialism, Violent Liberation, and Racialized Masculinities: Norman Mailer's "The White Negro" and An American Dream". Masculinity and the Paradox of Violence in American Fiction, 1950-75. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
— (Fall 2012). "Mailer's Modern Myth: Reexamining Violence and Masculinity in An American Dream". The Mailer Review. 6 (1): 158–169.
Merrill, Robert (1992). Norman Mailer Revisited. Boston: Twayne.
Millett, Kate (2016) [1970]. "Norman Mailer". Sexual Politics. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 314–335.
Parker, Hershel (1972). Flawed Texts and Verbal Icons: Literary Authority in American Fiction.
Poirier, Richard (1972). Norman Mailer. Modern Masters. New York: Viking Press.
Radford, Jean (1975). Norman Mailer: A Critical Study. London; Basingstoke: Macmillan Press.
Schulz, Max F. (1969). Radical Sophistication: Studies in Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists. Athens: Ohio University Press.
Solotaroff, Robert (1974). Down Mailer's Way. Urbana: U of Illinois P.
Tanner, Tony (1971). "On the Parapet". City of Words: American Fiction 1950–1970. New York: Harper & Row. pp. 344–371.
Toback, James (October 1967). "Norman Mailer Today". Commentary. pp. 67–76.
Wagenheim, Allan J. (1968). "Square's Progress: An American Dream". Critique. 10: 45–68.
Weber, Brom (1965). "A Fear of Dying: Norman Mailer's An American Dream". The Hollins Critic. II (3): 1–11.
Weinberg, Helen A. (1970). The New Novel in America: The Kafkan Mode in Contemporary Fiction. New York: Cornell University Press.
Wood, Margery (1966). "Norman Mailer and Nathalie Sarraute: A Comparison of Existential Novels". Minnesota Review. 6: 68–76. Reprinted in

Interviews

Adams, Laura (1975). "Existential Aesthetics: An Interview with Norman Mailer". Partisan Review. 42 (summer): 197–214. Reprinted in Lennon, J. Michael, ed. (1988). Conversations with Norman Mailer. Literary Conversations. Jackson and London: University Press of Mississippi.
Bower, Brock (September 24, 1965). "Norman". Life.
Gelmis, Joseph (1970). The Film Director as Superstar. New York: Doubleday.
MacGregor, Martha (March 14, 1965). "The Week in Books". New York Post.
Matz, Charles (1970). "Mailer's Opera". Opera News. 34 (17): 14–16.
"National Book Awards: The was the week that was". Publisher's Weekly. 187 (12): 34–45. 1965.

Reviews

Aldridge, John W. (March 19, 1965). "The Big Comeback of Norman Mailer". Life. p. 12.
Alvarez, A. "Norman X". The Spectator.
Baker, Carlos (March 11, 1965). "n.d." (Press release). Princeton, New Jersey: Dial Press, Inc. Princeton University.
Baker, Russell. "Kremlin Esthetics". Observer.
Barkham, John (March 13, 1965). "Book of the Week". Saturday Review.
Barkham, John (March 14, 1965). "His Dream is a Nightmare". The Sunday Bulletin. Philadelphia, PA.
Barrett, William. "Reader's Choice". The Atlantic Monthly. pp. 152–153.
Bersani, Leo (1972). "Interpretation of Dreams". In Braudy, Leo. Norman Mailer: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc. pp. 120–126.
Boroff, David. "'American Dream,' a Demonic Fantasy Shows Norman Mailer at His Worst". National Observer.
Boroff, David. "The Ragged Edge". American Judaism. p. 12, 27.
Buckley, Jr., William F. (September 26, 1965). "There's Hope in Mailer". The Miami Herald. p. 3-F.
Carpenter, Don (1967). "Carpenter on Mailer". Market Street.
Chester, Alfred (March 29, 1964). "Mailer in Search of His Hero". Book Week. p. 2, 12.
Dana, Robert (July 1965). "The Harbors of the Moon". The North American Review. Vol. 250. pp. 56–57.
Didion, Joan (April 20, 1965). "A Social Eye". National Review. pp. 329–330.
Epstein, Joseph (April 17, 1965). "Norman X: The Literary Man's Cassius Clay". New Republic. pp. 22, 24–25.
Hardwick, Elizabeth (Spring 1964). "Bad Boy". Partisan Review. Vol. 32. pp. 291–294.
Hyman, Stanley Edgar (1972). "Norman Mailer's Yummy Rump". In Braudy, Leo. Norman Mailer: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc. pp. 104–108.
Poirier, Richard (June 1965). "Morbid-Mindedness". Commentary. pp. 91–94.
Smothers, Jerry (March 1965). "An American Dream". Albuquerque Tribune.
Wolfe, Tom (March 14, 1965). "Son of Crime and Punishment, or: How to Go Eight Fast Rounds with the Heavyweight Champ and Lose". Washington Post. Book Week. pp. 1, 10, 12–13.