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Chapter 10 - Postmodernism

from Part II - Form and Genre

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2021

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Scott Duguid
Edited by
Maggie McKinley
Maggie McKinley
Affiliation:
Harper College
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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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postmodernismFrederic Jamesongenreliterary movementsAndy WarholSusan Sontagcampviolenceself-reflexivitymetafictionBret Easton Ellis
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Norman Mailer in Context , pp. 113 - 124
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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