Meta-Modernism in An American Dream

Authors

  • Lawrence R. Broer University of South Florida Author

Keywords:

An American Dream, meta-modernism, postmodernism, modernism, Ihab Hassan, Stephen Rojack

Abstract

An examination of “Meta-Modernism” in Ancient Evenings as applied to An American Dream—Mailer’s use of key elements in both literary traditions as a means to transcend the burden of modernism and postmodernism’s allegedly polarized intellectual heritage.

Author Biography

  • Lawrence R. Broer, University of South Florida

    Lawrence R. Broer is Professor Emeritus at the University of South Florida and he earned his PhD from Bowling Green State University. He is the author or editor of nine books, including Hemingway’s Spanish Tragedy (U of Alabama P, 1973), Sanity Plea: Schizophrenia in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut (U of Alabama P, 1994), Hemingway and Women: Female Critics and the Female Voice (U of Alabama P 2002) and Vonnegut and Hemingway: Writers At War (U of South Carolina Press, 2011). Professor Broer has contributed essays to numerous anthologies of literary criticism and has authored ninety-five articles and critical papers on modern and postmodern literature.

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Published

2016-09-28

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 1 (2016): 10th Anniversary Issue

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Broer, Lawrence R. “Meta-Modernism in An American Dream”. The Mailer Review, vol. 10, no. 1, Sept. 2016, pp. 99–116, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/561.

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