Book contents
- Norman Mailer in Context
- Norman Mailer in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- A Note on References and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Literary Influences
- Part II Form and Genre
- Chapter 4 New Journalism
- Chapter 5 Essays and Columns
- Chapter 6 The Novel
- Chapter 7 Criticism
- Chapter 8 Film
- Chapter 9 Modernism
- Chapter 10 Postmodernism
- Part III Political Contexts
- Part IV Philosophical and Cultural Contexts
- Part V Gender and Sexuality
- Part VI Profiles and Literary Biographies
- Part VII Mailer’s Legacy
- Primary Bibliography
- Selected Secondary Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 10 - Postmodernism
from Part II - Form and Genre
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2021
- Norman Mailer in Context
- Norman Mailer in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- A Note on References and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Literary Influences
- Part II Form and Genre
- Chapter 4 New Journalism
- Chapter 5 Essays and Columns
- Chapter 6 The Novel
- Chapter 7 Criticism
- Chapter 8 Film
- Chapter 9 Modernism
- Chapter 10 Postmodernism
- Part III Political Contexts
- Part IV Philosophical and Cultural Contexts
- Part V Gender and Sexuality
- Part VI Profiles and Literary Biographies
- Part VII Mailer’s Legacy
- Primary Bibliography
- Selected Secondary Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter offers a a brief survey of Mailer’s ongoing artistic responses and reactions to the postmodern period. Mailer is indebted to his Modernist predecessors but also experiments with perspective and structure in a way that aligns him more closely with definitions of Postmodernism. While this is most evident in his avant-garde films, it is also apparent in the self-referential nature and thematic focus of his nonfiction, as well as in his preoccupation with notions of metamorphosis.
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- Norman Mailer in Context , pp. 113 - 124Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021