Five Notes Toward a Reassessment of Norman Mailer

Authors

  • Jonathan Middlebrook San Francisco State University Author

Keywords:

literary reassessment, American literary canon, authorial voice, literary influence, Emersonian tradition, critical reception

Abstract

A reconsideration of Norman Mailer and his work against the backdrop of Middlebrook’s book, Mailer and the Times of His Time. San Francisco: Bay Books, 1976.

Author Biography

  • Jonathan Middlebrook, San Francisco State University

    Jonathan Middlebrook is Emeritus Professor of English at San Francisco State University, author of Mailer and the Times of His Time (San Francisco, 1976), some journalism, and several staid critical essays. He hopes his five notes will invite younger readers (especially) into vigorous wrestling with Mailer’s voluminous work, reading it into the twenty-first-century canon.

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Published

2026-01-25

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2007): Inaugural Issue

Section

Articles