Research on Norman Mailer's Works from the Perspective of New Historicism and Cultural Materialism Criticism

Author: Gu Hongli
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: Introduction, Preface
Norman Mailer (1923—) has been active in the American literary scene since the publication of his novel The Naked and the Dead in 1948. From the totalitarianism or the "new fascism" tendency that emerged in American society after World War II, the concerns of Henry Wallace, the American Dream and individualism, the counterculture movement, the Vietnam War, the presidential campaigns of U.S. Presidents, the Apollo 11 moon landing and issues of technological development, the downfall of actress Marilyn Monroe, the rise of the feminist movement, the execution of murderer Gary Gilmore, the assassination of President Kennedy, to the events that shook American society in 2001...