Death, Art, and the Disturbing

Hemingway and Mailer and the Art of Writing

Authors

  • J’aimé L. Sanders University of South Florida Author

Keywords:

Ernest Hemingway, An American Dream, existentialism, death and artistic philosophy, violence and authenticity, existential psychology, art of writing

Abstract

An exploration of Hemingway’s influence on Mailer’s existentialism and his philosophy of art, focusing on the aspects of their commensurate interest in the violent and disturbing as it relates to their philosophies of writing and art, and reveals how both writers put their existentially founded philosophies in motion in order to teach readers how to live in the highly modern and post-modernized consumer culture both authors question and reject throughout their canon of works.

Author Biography

  • J’aimé L. Sanders, University of South Florida

    J’aimé L. Sanders teaches at the University of South Florida where she is a Graduate Advisor for the English Department. She has presented papers on a variety of subjects ranging from the philosophical influences on the works of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Mailer to approaches to teaching literature across the English curriculum. Her publications include “Discovering the Source of Gatsby’s Greatness: Nick’s Eulogy of a ‘Great’ Kierkegaardian Knight” and “The Art of Existentialism: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer and the American Existential Tradition.”

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Published

2026-03-25

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2010): Literary Warriors

Section

Articles