Writing on Literature
From Gerald R. Lucas
Writing about literature that’s not sf or world lit.
| Date | Title | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-11-05 | “Courage through Opposition: The Political Resonance of Norman Mailer” | The first draft of a chapter I wrote for Mailer in Context. |
| 2018-10-03 | “The Existential Situation: The Making of Mailer’s Early Protagonists” | A look at some of Mailer’s protagonists in his short fiction. |
| 2014-10-15 | “Breaking Bad: Walter White’s Hipster Transformation” | Looking at Walter White as a post-9/11 Mailerian hipster. |
| 2013-02-23 | “Norman’s ‘Mailer’” | Mailer’s multiple personae attempt to get at some sort of truth. |
| 2013-01-22 | “Mailer’s Adverts & Hipster” | Reading key excerpts from Advertisements for Myself. |
| 2004-07-14 | “On Kafka's Metamorphosis” | A few thoughts on Kafka's nightmare vision of contemporary life. |
| 1997-10-06 | “Healthy Blasphemy: Dissenting Discourses in Rushdie and Bulgakov” | My Master’s Thesis, published in this revised form in 1997. |
| 1994-04-09 | “Bulgakov and Pasternack” | Considering the role of the artist in these twentieth-century Russian classics. |
