Norman Mailer's Later Fictions: Ancient Evenings Through Castle in the Forest

By John Whalen-Bridge

Book Overview

Foreword: Our Byron; J.Epstein Absolutely Dauntless: A Quarter-century of Sex, God, Politics, and Fame; J.Whalen-Bridge PART I: SEX From Egypt to Provincetown, By Trump Air: The Historical Return of the Repressed in Ancient Evenings and Tough Guys Don't Dance; S.Duguid Mailer and the 'Diet of Reality': Tough Guys Don't Dance and American Values; J.E.Ryan PART II: GOD Mailer's 'Gnostic' Gospel; A.Howley A Jew for Jesus? A Jewish Reading of Norman Mailer's The Gospel According to the Son; M.Bernstein Augustinian Evil in Gospel According to the Son and The Castle in the Forest: A Case for Non-Dualism; J.F.L.Partridge PART III: POLITICS Imperial Mailer: Ancient Evenings; A.Howley Spooks and Agencies: Harlot's Ghost and the Culture of Secrecy; B.J.McDonald The Nazi Occult and The Castle in the Forest: Raw History and Fictional Transformation; H.Wolffram PART IV: FAME History Looking at Itself: On the Road with the Mailers and George Plimpton; L.Shainberg Late Mailer: His Writing and Reputation Since Ancient Evenings; J.Whalen-Bridge Afterword: Norman as Editor; N.Mailer

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349286400
• ISBN13: 9781349286409
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"