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The Mailer Review/Volume 10, 2016/Norman Mailer’s Reception of Inherited Sociocultural Norms (1950–1960): Difference between revisions
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{{byline|last=Nakjavani|first=Erik | {{byline|last=Nakjavani|first=Erik|abstract=A meditative, postmodern retrospective-prospective method to Norman Mailer’s reception of various modes of sociocultural inheritance.|note=In memory of Robert W. Lewis.|url=https://prmlr.us/mr10nakj}} | ||
{{quote|[L]iterature and art only obtain a history that has the character of a process when the succession of works is mediated not only through the producing subject but also through the consuming subject—through the interaction of author and public.|author=Hans Robert Jauss|source=''Toward an Aesthetic of Reception''{{sfn|Jauss|1989|p=15}}}} | {{quote|[L]iterature and art only obtain a history that has the character of a process when the succession of works is mediated not only through the producing subject but also through the consuming subject—through the interaction of author and public.|author=Hans Robert Jauss|source=''Toward an Aesthetic of Reception''{{sfn|Jauss|1989|p=15}}}} | ||
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Consequently, Mailer as a young novelist, essayist, and literary intellectual received his staid, inherited sociocultural legacy by radically, critically assessing it. He strongly challenged the preconceived, expected, and accepted sociocultural and literary norms. He advanced the notion of engaging in sustained, courageous, transgressive limit-experiences with the dark, unfathomable side of human existence. It resulted in a formulation of his determined, exploratory styles of thought and writing, then and later. Mailer was in the grips of an insatiable epistemophilia of prodigious dimensions. Perhaps his true love was the transcendent as-yet-unknown rising to the surface from the dark depths of the mysterious and perhaps the unknowable. | Consequently, Mailer as a young novelist, essayist, and literary intellectual received his staid, inherited sociocultural legacy by radically, critically assessing it. He strongly challenged the preconceived, expected, and accepted sociocultural and literary norms. He advanced the notion of engaging in sustained, courageous, transgressive limit-experiences with the dark, unfathomable side of human existence. It resulted in a formulation of his determined, exploratory styles of thought and writing, then and later. Mailer was in the grips of an insatiable epistemophilia of prodigious dimensions. Perhaps his true love was the transcendent as-yet-unknown rising to the surface from the dark depths of the mysterious and perhaps the unknowable. | ||
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