Norman Mailer’s Reception of Inherited Sociocultural Norms (1950–1960)

Authors

  • Erik Nakjavani University of Pittsburgh Author

Keywords:

reception theory, Hans Robert Jauss, Marxism, Wilhelm Reich, existentialism, “The White Negro”

Abstract

A meditative, postmodern retrospective-prospective method to Norman Mailer’s reception of various modes of sociocultural inheritance.

Author Biography

  • Erik Nakjavani, University of Pittsburgh

    Erik Nakjavani is Professor Emeritus of Humanities at the University of Pittsburgh. His life-long interests have been in literary theory, psychoanalysis, and philosophy. He specializes in Hemingway studies and is a founding member of the Hemingway Society. His latest essay, “Conceptualizing Lived Experience: Mailer as an Intellectual,” appeared in The Mailer Review (2015).

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Published

2016-09-28

Issue

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

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Nakjavani, Erik. “Norman Mailer’s Reception of Inherited Sociocultural Norms (1950–1960)”. The Mailer Review, vol. 10, no. 1, Sept. 2016, pp. 275–301, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/574.