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

* {{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.

* {{Anchor|Gutman (1975)}}{{cite book |last=Gutman |first=Stanley T. |date=1975 |title=Mankind in Barbary: The Individual and Society in the Novels of Norman Mailer |url=https://archive.org/details/mankindinbarbary0000gutm |location=Hanover, NH |publisher=The University Press of New England |author-link= |ref=harv }}

* {{Anchor|Muste (1971)}}{{cite journal |last=Muste |first=John M. |date=1971 |title=Norman Mailer and John Dos Passos: The Question of Influence |url= |journal=Modern Fiction Studies |volume=17 |issue=autumn |pages=361–374 |access-date= }} Raises serious doubts about the specific influence of John Dos Passos’s ''U.S.A.'' on ''The Naked and the Dead'' ([[48.2]]).

* {{Anchor|Newlove (1969)}}{{cite magazine |last=Newlove |first=Donald |date=1969 |title=Dinner at the Lowells |url=https://classic.esquire.com/article/1969/9/1/dinner-at-the-lowells |url-access=subscription |magazine=Esquire |pages=128–129, 168, 170–178, 180, 184 |publisher= |access-date=2019-03-26 }} Lowell comments on his portrait in ''The Armies of the Night'' ([[68.8]]).

* {{cite journal |last= |first= |date=1973 |title=Norman Mailer Issue |url= |journal=New Orleans Review |volume=3 |issue=3 |pages= |access-date= }} Contains three essays and an interview by Matthew Grace and Steve Roday. See [[73.14]].

* {{Anchor|Oates (1974)}}{{cite book |last=Oates |first=Joyce Carol |date=1974 |chapter=[[The Teleology of the Unconscious: The Art of Norman Mailer]] |title=New Heaven, New Earth: The Visionary Experience in Literature |url=https://archive.org/details/newheavenneweart00oate |location=New York |publisher=Vanguard Press |pages=170–192 |isbn= |author-link=w:Joyce Carol Oates }} Discussion of Mailer’s dualisms in ''Why Are We In Vietnam?'' ([[67.15]]) and ''Of a Fire on the Moon'' ([[71.1]]) by a novelist who “disagree[s] with nearly every one of Mailer’s stated or implied ideas.”

* {{Anchor|Olster (1989)}}{{cite book |last=Olster |first=Stacey |date=1989 |chapter=The Transition to Post-Modernism: Norman Mailer |title=Reminiscence and Re-creation in Contemporary American Fiction |url=https://archive.org/details/reminiscencerecr0000olst |location=Cambridge |publisher=University of Cambridge Press |pages=36–71 |isbn= |author-link= }} Mailer is seen as a transitional figure between modernism and postmodernism; focus is on his writings of the 1960s.

* {{Anchor|Ostriker (1972)}}{{cite magazine |last=Ostriker |first=Dane Proxpeals |date=November 1972 |title=Norman Mailer and the Mystery Woman or, The Rape of the C—k |url=https://classic.esquire.com/article/1972/11/1/norman-mailer-and-the-mystery-woman |url-access=subscription |magazine=Esquire |pages=122–125 |publisher= |access-date= }} Pseudonymous attack in rhymed couplets on Mailer as male chauvinist.