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...that had nothing to do with his childhood but did give me a grasp of later events.

...urnalism|New Journalism]] in the sixties: a new way to perceive the unique events of the era, weaving conventional reporting with fictional techniques. While The following is an overview of important events in Mailer's life.<ref>Based on a handout by [[J. Michael Lennon]]; addition

recount historical events through the subjective and

...remaining contenders are from show business. The swift parade of political events which followed the film’s completion has not undermined the power of its

...Beats]] lived and wrote in the wake of these cataclysmic, earth-shattering events, feeling that they were living at the end of the world; they had a distinct

...re we are likely to go, pointing up the significant in the most trivial of events, and conversely placing in perspective the truly momentous acts of our time ...eply personal sense on the part of both writers that because of the tragic events of 9/11 and what Mailer calls the inestimable “spiritual wreckage”{{sfn

...y in relation to the Cold War. The novel resists making overt judgments on events. The novel’s form and its political and social content are unified in the ...novel fails to cohere as a novel. The novel refuses overt judgments on the events narrated. Paradoxical as it may seem, I will argue that the ''failure'' of

...nally vague about the date of the treatment’s action, noting only that the events take place sometime within the next one hundred years. The plot presents a ...spaceship in Norton’s book, but also is a remarkable representation of the events in Mailer’s treatment. Finlay’s painting illustrates, in a distinctive

...Later]” by Peter Dreier considers Mailer’s 1957 essay in light of current events and concludes “For all its many inexcusable flaws, ‘The White Negro’

...in Mailer’s version of God, portrayed as a being who can be overwhelmed by events. God, like humans, is capable of growth: “God, too, is always looking to

...n to ignite the public consciousness had been usurped by reporting current events and what was to become known as [[w:New Journalism|the new journalism]]. Wi

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''An American Dream'' Expanded/Timeline of Events, 1962–1966}}

..., it does provide a privileged perspective on some of the most cataclysmic events and fabled figures of American life after World War II. Like a long freight ...are real. The assassination attempts on Castro are all real. All the major events in the book are real.

...gram co-chairs. Please email both with ideas for panels, papers or special events.

...int in English (an impossible task worth attempting), as well as the chief events of his life. Also included are a select secondary bibliography, and several

...p with the author and, perhaps, insufficient time to put relationships and events into proper context. “Like a young wine that hasn’t matured,” he conf

...Dream'': Selected Bibliography (see tabs above); Appendix III: Timeline of Events, 1962-1966 (see tabs above); and Appendix IV: ''An American Dream'': Word C

...nt and a great deal of background information on the Mailer family and the events of the early 1960s; she also proofread the manuscript with an eagle eye. Da

...y became the literary “it boy” of New York City. But in a shocking turn of events, the day before a rave review of Abbott’s book, ''In the Belly of the Be ...o The Champ and a vivid document of one of the most epic, adrenaline-laced events in sporting history.

As Rojack relates his story, sparing neither himself nor his auditors, the events are relatively unimportant. The plot, in fact, is banal; it can be found in ...structure designed to dramatize the death of rationalism. In most novels, events build up to a concluding climax. In ''An American Dream'', on the contrary,