Advertisements for Myself

Mailer’s Künstlerroman?

Authors

  • Alexander Hicks Emory University Author

Keywords:

Advertisements for Myself, Künstlerroman, autobiography, Northrop Frye, literary persona, confessional mode

Abstract

Advertisements for Myself is better appreciated as a novelistic autobiography than as an anthology-like collection of writings and it is also an autobiographical narrative. In brief, it is a narrative of the developing Mailer, as writer and literary persona, as well as stylist, that is bookended by an opening on Mailer’s hopes for a very great novel in the book’s first “Advertisement” and a postscript in the form of “Advertisement for Myself on the Way Out.”

Author Biography

  • Alexander Hicks, Emory University

    Alexander Hicks is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Emory University and author/co-author of several books, including Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism (Cornell, 1999) and The Handbook of Political Sociology (Cambridge, 2004), plus numerous papers in leading social science journals, The Mailer Review, and Poetics, and was 2003-2006 inaugural co-editor of The Socioeconomic Review (Oxford). He exchanged several dozen letters with Norman Mailer during 1983-2006.

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Published

2018-10-25

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 1 (2018)

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Hicks, Alexander. “Advertisements for Myself: Mailer’s Künstlerroman?”. The Mailer Review, vol. 12, no. 1, Oct. 2018, pp. 172–177, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/654.