...Donald Weber Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 West, Pynchon, Mailer, and the Jeremiad Tradition Donald Weber If we do not falter in our duty now, we may be able, handful that we are, to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country, and change the history of the world...

... and religious education had effaced the throat-grappling instinct, or else firm finance held in check the passions. Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety. Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead The issue, of course, was courage. How to behave. Whether...

...: Kurt Vonnegut s Slaughterhouse Five, Thomas Pynchon s V, Norman Mailer s American Dream, Saul Bellow s Mr. Sammler s Planet or Herzog are not stories at all, but simply presentations of attitudes toward the modem predicament in one given situation. The degree to which there is an admission...

... to discussions of four major practicioners of the form, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Wolfe, and Michael Herr. The part of the text devoted to theory is clear, concise, and notably free of current critical jargon, although much that is strong and original in Heilman s argument sometimes gets obscured...

..., 1969); Charles Durden, No Bugles, No Drums (New York, 1976). References in my text are to these editions. 142 The South Atlantic Quarterly ingway, Jones, and Mailer. Eastlake s and Durden s, on the other hand, resemble more closely the new novel of war, as practiced by Heller, Vonnegut, and Pynchon...

...Ronald Weber Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 Art-Journalism Revisited Ronald Weber Although he devoted a chapter of Bright Book of Life to the imagi­ nation of fact in the work of Truman Capote and Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin announced in the book that the art-journalism...

...Theodore L. Gross Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 J. D. Salinger Suicide and Survival in the Modern World Theodore L. Gross Salinger was the most gifted minor writer in America, Norman Mailer tells us in a recent requiem on Salinger s career, the finest writer The New Yorker...

... of the decade. In 1957, the year the junior senator died, Norman Mailer s essay The White Negro placed the burden of radical social change upon the shoulders of the hipster, whose fingertips were tingling with modern jazz rhythms and whose lungs were already filled with marihuana smoke. Mailer inflated...

... therefore concluded that Mc­ Carthy was closer to the hipster than to the Organization Man. Therein lies one of the most intriguing ironies of the decade. In 1957, the year the junior senator died, Norman Mailer s essay The White Negro placed the burden of radical social change upon the shoulders...

... of overtly literary strategies, and the discussion of Michael Herr s Dispatches, demon­ strating expertly how Herr makes the operation of consciousness in exploring and ordering the experience of Vietnam, rather than the experience itself, his true subject. The discussions of Mailer and Wolfe both provide...

... 1994. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press, ccc 0038-2876/9450. 508 ThomasJ. Ferraro ogy continued with the writers upon whom Miller, as Celine s most effective transmitter, was most influential: the West-looking Beats of the 1950s, especially Ginsberg and Kerouac, and the young Mailer...

... Mailer, I would say, as primary writers in the generation which is only just now, after artificial delays and rebukes, taking its begrudged place as the contemporary literary generation. Younger than Mailer he was bom in Newport News, Vir­ ginia, the son of a native of North Carolina, in 1925 Styron has...

... Norman Mailer was a twenty-four-year-old Harvard graduate, three years out of the army, and driven by a similar hatred.6 Both Dos Passos and Mailer were first to arrive in their generations with novels which shocked both those who recognized truths they were trying to forget and those who still insisted...

..., or Cynthia Ozick, or Nor­ man Mailer) offers us no myth of political virginity preserved, no individuals who are not expressions of and responses to specific historical processes. But things are changing now for DeLillo: in 1984 he was given an award by the American Academy and Institute of Arts...

... sometimes sleazy bravado. Watch Norman Mailer carefully next time he appears on some television talk program; there is a frightened stammer in the center of the man, an unhappy fumbling at his edges; he shares the deep and honorable apprehension all serious writers live with. Most of the class has assembled...

.... As Norman Mailer recently asserted, Baldwin has a definite religious interest in his works.27 I think there can be no doubt that Baldwin s imag­ inative literature contains what Nathan Scott has designated as the religious dimension. 28 The question, then, is what consti­ tutes this religious dimension...

... Review. The subjects range from The Tempest through Words­ worth, Tennyson, Browning, and E. M. Forster to Norman Mailer. The pretentious title for this miscellany is The Modern Spirit, and the subtitle promises that it will shed light on the continuity of lit­ erature in the past two centuries...

... the American literary tradition of Malcolm X and Norman Mailer, and finally a gathering of seven reviews of books on E. E. Cummings, the anthologized contents of the Little Review, American writers abroad, the 1890 s, Wallace Stevens, and Hart Crane. Mr. Berthoff dislikes literary gossip, disorder...

... fiction, because its rela­ tively weak author-reader contract required an emphasis on the plau­ sible, was also too restricted in its techniques to convey the hallucina­ tory ambience of such a war. In contrast, the new journalism de­ veloped by such writers as Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, and Hunter...

...Ed. The Life of William Blake ( Oxford University Press , 1971 , $12.50 ) Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 Book Reviews 279 of Edmund Wilson, the place (large) within the American literary tradition of Malcolm X and Norman Mailer, and finally a gathering of seven...