Norman Mailer: Works and Days/Bibliography/Criticism: Difference between revisions

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* {{Anchor|Adams (1976)}}{{cite book |last=Adams |first=Laura |date=1976 |title=Existential Battles: The Growth of Norman Mailer |url=https://archive.org/details/existentialbattl0000adam |location=Athens |publisher=Ohio University Press |page= |author-link= }} Good discussion of themes and techniques, especially early narrators; includes description of extra-literary activities.

* {{Anchor|Adams (1974)}}{{cite book |editor-last=Adams |editor-first=Laura |editor-mask=1 |date=1974 |title=Will the Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up |url=https://archive.org/details/willrealnormanma00adam |location=Port Washington, NY |publisher=Kennikat Press |page= |isbn= |author-link= }} Fourteen essays and reviews and one interview examining Mailer’s protean activities. Includes two essays on Mailer’s cosmology, a long bibliography and Adams’s useful introduction.

* {{Anchor|Aldridge (1992)}}{{cite book |last=Aldridge |first=John W. |date=1992 |title=Classics and Contemporaries |url= |location=Columbia |publisher=University of Missouri Press |pages=54–58 |isbn= |author-link=w:John W. Aldridge }} Contains Aldridge’s reviews of ''Genius and Lust'' ([[76.12]]), ''The Long Patrol'' ([[71.29]]), and ''Harlot’s Ghost'' ([[91.26]]).

* {{Anchor|Bloom (1986)}}{{cite book |editor-last=Bloom |editor-first=Harold |date=1986 |title=Norman Mailer: Modern Critical Views |url= |location=New York |publisher=Chelsea House |page= |isbn= |author-link= }} Sixteen reviews and essays covering Mailer’s major works and emphasizing the influence of Hemingway, with Bloom’s brief introduction.

* {{Anchor|Bloom (2003)}}{{cite book |editor-last=Bloom |editor-first=Harold |editor-mask=1 |date=2003 |title=Norman Mailer: Critical Views |url= |location=Philadelphia |publisher=Chelsea House |page= |isbn= |author-link= }} Thirteen reviews and essays focusing on Mailer’s later works.

* {{Anchor|Booth (1988)}}{{cite book |last=Booth |first=Wayne |date=1988 |title=The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction |url=https://archive.org/details/companywekeepeth0000boot |location=Berkeley and Los Angeles |publisher=University of California Press |page=207–210, 327–336 |isbn= |author-link= }} Useful to gauge how Mailer’s public image has alienated an important critic.

* {{Anchor|Braudy (1991)}}{{cite book |last=Braudy |first=Leo |date=1991 |chapter=''Maidstone: A Mystery'' by Norman Mailer |title=Native Informant: Essays on Film, Fiction and Popular Culture |url=https://archive.org/details/nativeinformante00braurich |location=New York |publisher=Oxford |pages=60–63, 145–151 |isbn= |author-link= }} Rpt: [[#Adams (1974)|Adams (1974)]]. Informed comment on Mailer’s film and the Mailer-Pynchon dichotomy.

* {{Anchor|Busch (1986)}}{{cite book |last=Busch |first=Frederick |date=1986 |chapter=The Whale as Shaggy Dog |title=When People Publish: Essays on Writers and Writing |url= |location=Iowa City |publisher=Iowa University Press |pages=65–82 |isbn= |author-link= }} Argues persuasively for the influence of ''Moby-Dick'' on “The Man Who Studied Yoga” ([[56.25]]). See [[51.2]].

* {{Anchor|Cappell (2016)}}{{cite journal |last1=Cappell |first1=Ezra |date=2016 |title=Hemingway’s Jewish Progeny |url= |journal=Mailer Review |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=208–228 |doi= |access-date= }}

* {{Anchor|Capote (1985)}}{{cite book |last=Capote |first=Truman |date=1985 |title=Conversations with Capote |url=https://archive.org/details/conversationswit00grob |editor-last=Grobel |editor-first=Lawrence |location=New York |publisher=New American Library |pages=112–116, passim |isbn= |author-link= }} Capote criticizes ''The Executioner’s Song'' ([[79.14]]).

* {{Anchor|Foster (1968)}}{{cite book |last=Foster |first=Richard Jackson |date=1968 |title=Norman Mailer |url=https://archive.org/details/normanmailer00fost |location=Minneapolis |publisher=U of Minnesota P |volume=73 |series=University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers |ref=harv}} Rpt: [[#Lucid (1971)|Lucid (1971)]]; partial in [[#Bloom (1986)|Bloom (1986)]]. This monograph, one of the first extended treatments of Mailer’s work, is still one of the best. Excellent on Mailer’s urgent, “forcing style.”

* {{Anchor|Glenday (1995)}}{{cite book |last=Glenday |first=Michael |date=1995 |title=Norman Mailer |url= |location=London |publisher=Macmillan |author-link= |ref=harv}} Examines Mailer’s novels in a socio-political context. Contains one of the finest discussions of ''Why Are We in Vietnam'' ([[67.15]]), which he deftly relates to the issues of the day.

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* {{Anchor|Lennon (1986a)}}{{cite book |editor-last=Lennon |editor-first=J. Michael |date=1986 |title=Critical Essays on Norman Mailer |url= |location=Boston |publisher=G.K. Hall & Co. |author-link=J. Michael Lennon |ref=harv}} Ten reviews and ten essays, including two original ones: Robert F. Lucid’s overview of his proposed biography and Michael Cowan’s on Mailer’s Americanness. Introduction summarizes critical response to Mailer’s work.

* {{Anchor|Poirier (1972)}}{{cite book |last=Poirier |first=Richard |date=1972 |title=Norman Mailer |series=Modern Masters |url=https://archive.org/details/normanmailer0000poir |location=New York |publisher=Viking Press |author-link= |ref=harv}} Rpt: Partial in [[#Bloom (1986)|Bloom (1986)]]. Still considered to be most intelligent study of Mailer. Contains three chapters: on Mailer’s career, his relation to history, and his dualisms. Poirier’s Mailer is perhaps too postmodern, but Poirier is acute on Mailer’s endlessly modulating rhetoric, even if he is incredulous about Mailer’s cosmology.

* {{Anchor|Ross (1978)}}{{cite book |last=Ross |first=Mitchell |date=1978 |chapter=Norman Mailer |title=The Literary Politicians |url=https://archive.org/details/literarypolitici00ross |location=Garden City, NJ |publisher=Doubleday |pages=166–216 |isbn= |author-link= }} Lacking notes and an index, this vicious diatribe is valuable to help understand the depth of anger among Mailer’s detractors. Ross is the Babe Ruth of Mailer revilers.

* {{Anchor|Rother (1978)}}{{cite journal |last1=Rother |first1=James |date=1978 |title=Mailer’s ‘O’Shaugnessy Chronicle’: A Speculative Autopsy |url= |journal=Critique |volume=19 |issue=3 |pages=21–39 |doi= |access-date= }} Contends that Lawrence Durrell’s ''Alexandria Quartet'' caused Mailer to rethink his plans.

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* {{Anchor|Schwenger (1984)}}{{cite book |last=Schwenger |first=Peter |date=1984 |title=Phallic Critiques: Masculinity and Twentieth-Century Literature |url= |location=London |publisher=Routledge and Kegan Paul |pages=24–36, 103–107 and passim |isbn= |author-link= }} Worthy exploration of Mailer’s rhetoric and obscenity.

* {{Anchor|Scott (1973)}}{{cite book |last=Scott |first=Nathan A., Jr. |date=1973 |chapter=Norman Mailer—Our Whitman |title=Three American Moralists: Mailer, Bellow, Trilling |url= |location=Notre Dame, IN |publisher=University of Notre Dame Press |pages=15–97 |isbn= |author-link= }} In detailed readings, Scott makes the case that Mailer, like Whitman, is a “spokesperson for the American conscience.”

* {{Anchor|Wilson (2008)}}{{cite book |last=Wilson |first=Andrew |date=2008 |title=Norman Mailer: An American Aesthetic |url= |location=Oxford, England |publisher=Peter Lang |page= |isbn= |author-link= }}

* {{Anchor|Zavarzadeh (1976)}}{{cite book |last=Zavarzadeh |first=Mas'ud |date=1976 |title=The Mythopoeic Reality: The Postwar American Nonfiction Novel |url=https://archive.org/details/mythopoeicrealit0000zava |location=Urbana |publisher=University of Illinois Press |pages=153–176 and passim |isbn= |author-link= }} Attempts to prove, unconvincingly, that ''The Armies of the Night'' ([[68.8]]) has a “zero degree of interpretation” of reality.