Norman Mailer : the man and his work /

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Bernardo Bertolucci's Last tango in Paris : the screenplay by Bertolucci, Bernardo, Arcalli, Franco

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Who says this? : the authority of the author, the discourse, and the reader by Everman, Welch D., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…The novel as document: the "docufiction" of Norman Mailer, Jay Cantor, and Jack Kerouac --…”


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In cold blood, by Truman Capote by Tredell, Nicolas

Table of Contents: “…"Strange lights and intuitive speculation" : In Cold Blood and Norman Mailer's The Armies of the Night /…”


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American fictions by Hardwick, Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…Wharton in New York -- Henry James: on Washington Square -- [PART 2] Americans abroad -- The genius of Margaret Fuller -- A bunch of reds: John Reed -- Gertrude Stein -- The fate of the gifted: Djuna Barnes -- [PART 3] Wind from the prairie -- The prairie poets: Carl Sandburg, Vachel Lindsay, and Edgar Lee Masters -- Anderson, Millay, and Crane in their letters -- [PART 4] Victims and victors -- Seduction and betrayal -- Zelda -- Sylvia Plath -- Eugene O'Neill: a sketch -- [PART 5] Snapshots -- Mary McCarthy -- Nabokov: master class -- Elizabeth Bishop -- [PART 6] The sense of the present -- Guilt, character, possibilities -- [PART 7] Fictions of America -- Cheever; or, the ambiguities -- Citizen Updike -- Paradise lost: Philip Roth -- In the wasteland: Joan Didion -- Reckless people: Richard Ford -- [PART 8] Lives -- Katherine Anne Porter -- Edmund Wilson -- Truman Capote: Tru confessions -- Norman Mailer: the teller and the tape.…”


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Sight-readings : American fictions by Hardwick, Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…Wharton in New York -- On Washington Square -- [PART 2] Americans abroad -- The genius of Margaret Fuller -- Gertrude Stein -- The fate of the gifted -- [PART 3] Fictions of America -- Cheever; or, the ambiguities -- Citizen Updike -- Paradise lost: Philip Roth -- In the wasteland: Joan Didion -- Reckless people: Richard Ford -- [PART 4] Biographies -- Katherine Anne Porter -- Wind from the prairie -- Norman Mailer: the teller and the tape -- [PART 5] Snapshots -- Mary McCarthy in New York -- The magical prose of poets: Elizabeth Bishop -- Tru confessions -- [PART 6] Other shores -- Something out there: Nadine Gortimer.…”


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American moderns, from rebellion to conformity by Geismar, Maxwell, 1909-1979

Table of Contents: “…The mid-fifties -- The end of naturalism -- Higher and higher criticism -- The American conscience today -- The age of Wouk -- Theodore Dreiser -- Ernest Hemingway -- John Dos Passos -- William Faulkner : before and after the Nobel Prize -- Sinclair Lewis -- Thomas Wolfe -- By Cozzens possessed -- Further decline of the moderns -- Norman Mailer : the Bohemian of the national letters -- John Hersey : the revival of conscience -- Nelson Algren : the iron sanctuary -- J.D. …”


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The fine art of literary fist-fighting : how a bunch of rabble-rousers, outsiders, and ne'er-do-wells concocted creative nonfiction by Gutkind, Lee

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