Conceptualizing Lived Experience

Norman Mailer as an Intellectual

Authors

  • Erik Nakjavani University of Pittsburgh Author

Keywords:

Mailer as intellectual, existential phenomenology, Sigmund Freud, Marxism, Jean-Paul Sartre, lived experience

Abstract

Mailer established strategies to offer heuristic and hermeneutic approaches to his work as a writer. Such strategies led to Mailer’s highly novel and distinctive responses to problems of yearning to open up an unlimited space of acquiring knowledge.

Author Biography

  • Erik Nakjavani, University of Pittsburgh

    Erik Nakjavani is Professor Emeritus of Humanities at the University of Pittsburgh. He has published on American literature, poetry, and interdisciplinary studies, literary theory, and psychoanalytic criticism. He specializes in Hemingway Studies with an emphasis on philosophy, psychoanalysis, the visual arts. He is a founding member of the Hemingway Society. His recent publications include “Evil: A Psychoanalytic Meditation”; “Homage to Guillevic: The Poet of Atavistic Nostalgia for the Primeval”; “Alchemy, Memory, and Archetypes: Reading Hemingway’s Under Kilimanjaro as an African Fairy Tale”; “A Visionary Hermeneutic Appropriation: Meditations on Hemingway’s Influence on Mailer”; “Esmail Khoi: The Poet as Observer and Creative Explorer” “Hemingway’s African Book of Revelations: Dawning of a New Religion in Under Kilimanjaro”; “The Living George Plimpton: Taking a Sporting Stance between Hemingway and Mailer”; “Now that the Greatest Living Romantic was Dead: Norman Mailer and Mary Hemingway’s Eulogies to Ernest Hemingway”; “For Hemingway, War Was Inevitable and Criminal”; and FitzGerald’s “Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: Critical Celebrations of a Beloved Poem.”

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Published

2015-09-30

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2015): Maestro

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Nakjavani, Erik. “Conceptualizing Lived Experience: Norman Mailer As an Intellectual”. The Mailer Review, vol. 9, no. 1, Sept. 2015, pp. 185–209, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/522.