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| 2019-11-05 || “[[November 5, 2019|Courage through Opposition: The Political Resonance of Norman Mailer]]” || The first draft of a chapter I wrote for ''Mailer in Context''.
| 2019-11-05 || “[[November 5, 2019|Courage through Opposition: The Political Resonance of Norman Mailer]]” || The first draft of a chapter I wrote for ''Mailer in Context''.
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| 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.
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| 2014-10-15 || “[[October 15, 2014|''Breaking Bad'': Walter White’s Hipster Transformation]]” || Looking at Walter White as a post-9/11 Mailerian hipster.
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| 2014-02-28 || “[[Integral Social Media]]” || How I augmented my #MailerClass with social media.
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| 2013-06-17 || “[[June 17, 2013|Teaching Norman Mailer]]” || The first post in a series that discusses the “legacy power” of Mailer.
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| 2013-04-05 || “[[April 5, 2013|Into Darkness]]” || In ''The Executioner’s Song'', Gary Gilmore is more than just a cold-hearted executioner.
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| 2013-02-23 || “[[February 24, 2013|Norman’s ‘Mailer]]{{' "}} || Mailer’s multiple personae attempt to get at some sort of truth.
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| 2013-02-01 || “[[February 1, 2013|The Harbors of the Moon]]” || The moon is a major symbol that haunts Rojack throughout Norman Mailer’s 1965 novel ''An American Dream''.
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| 2013-01-25 || “[[The Minuet of Macho]]” || Norman Mailer’s 1959 short story “The Time of Her Time” shows his Hipster at work, but has fun with him at the same time.
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| 2013-01-22 || “[[January 22, 2013|Mailer’s ''Adverts'' & Hipster]]” || Reading key excerpts from ''Advertisements for Myself''.
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| 2012-10-12 || “[[Mailer’s Novel(ist)]]” || In and Beyond the Late Age of Print.
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| 2012-02-09 || “[[February 9, 2012|Cormac McCarthy's Apocalypse: Signs and Maps Along ''The Road'']]” || Anytime we try to talk about the apocalypse, we slip into nostalgia to guide our way forward.
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| 2011-06-13 || “[[June 13, 2011|The Novel and the Order]]” || Will a new genre eventually replace the novel?
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| 2011-06-06 || “[[Mailer as Novelist]]” || Norman Mailer places the novelist in an ethical and existential position of great responsibility.
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| 2009-10-24 || “[[Faust, Mailer, and the Comfort of Evil|''Faust'', Mailer, and the Comfort of Evil]]” || Norman Mailer famously stated that technology was the work of the devil. Sometimes it’s best to keep the devil close.
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| 2008-11-17 || “[[November 17, 2008|Frames in Kafka’s ''Metamorphosis'']]” || A note on literal and figurative frames in Kafka’s novella.
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| 2004-07-14 || “[[On Kafka's Metamorphosis|On Kafka's ''Metamorphosis'']]” || A few thoughts on Kafka's nightmare vision of contemporary life.
| 2004-07-14 || “[[On Kafka's Metamorphosis|On Kafka's ''Metamorphosis'']]” || A few thoughts on Kafka's nightmare vision of contemporary life.
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| 2004-04-12 || “[[April 12, 2004|Baldwin’s ‘Sonny’s Blues{{' "}}]] || Suffering, the Blues, and our (in)ability to listen.
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| 2004-03-30 || “[[March 30, 2004|Virginia Woolf and ''The Hours'']]” || Do we live in or just tolerate the hours?
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| 2004-02-10 || “[[February 10, 2004|What Place Evolution?]]” || An observation on Jack London’s “To Build a Fire.”
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| 2004-01-13 || “[[January 13, 2004|You Can’t Go Home Again]]” || Some notes of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1931 short story “Babylon Revisited.”
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| 1997-10-06 || “[[Healthy Blasphemy]]: Dissenting Discourses in Rushdie and Bulgakov” || My Master’s Thesis, published in this revised form in 1997.
| 1997-10-06 || “[[Healthy Blasphemy]]: Dissenting Discourses in Rushdie and Bulgakov” || My Master’s Thesis, published in this revised form in 1997.
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| {{date|1995-07-02|ISO}} || “[[July 2, 1995|The Fall of a Sparrow: ''A Note on A Hero of Our Time'' and ''Hamlet'']]” || A comparative note on acting and heroism.
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| {{date|1995-04-14|ISO}} || “[[April 17, 1995|Apropos Sonnets 33, 34, and 35]]” || A reading of Shakespeare’s sonnet trio.
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| 1994-04-09 || “[[April 9, 1994|Bulgakov and Pasternack]]” || Considering the role of the artist in these twentieth-century Russian classics.
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| 1993-12-19 || “[[December 19, 1993|Revisionary Mythmaking]]” || On Adrienne Rich and “Diving in the Wreck.”
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[[Category:On Literature]]
[[Category:Literary]]
[[Category:Index]]

Latest revision as of 08:25, 26 July 2021

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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.
2014-02-28 Integral Social Media How I augmented my #MailerClass with social media.
2013-06-17 Teaching Norman Mailer The first post in a series that discusses the “legacy power” of Mailer.
2013-04-05 Into Darkness In The Executioner’s Song, Gary Gilmore is more than just a cold-hearted executioner.
2013-02-23 Norman’s ‘Mailer Mailer’s multiple personae attempt to get at some sort of truth.
2013-02-01 The Harbors of the Moon The moon is a major symbol that haunts Rojack throughout Norman Mailer’s 1965 novel An American Dream.
2013-01-25 The Minuet of Macho Norman Mailer’s 1959 short story “The Time of Her Time” shows his Hipster at work, but has fun with him at the same time.
2013-01-22 Mailer’s Adverts & Hipster Reading key excerpts from Advertisements for Myself.
2012-10-12 Mailer’s Novel(ist) In and Beyond the Late Age of Print.
2012-02-09 Cormac McCarthy's Apocalypse: Signs and Maps Along The Road Anytime we try to talk about the apocalypse, we slip into nostalgia to guide our way forward.
2011-06-13 The Novel and the Order Will a new genre eventually replace the novel?
2011-06-06 Mailer as Novelist Norman Mailer places the novelist in an ethical and existential position of great responsibility.
2009-10-24 Faust, Mailer, and the Comfort of Evil Norman Mailer famously stated that technology was the work of the devil. Sometimes it’s best to keep the devil close.
2008-11-17 Frames in Kafka’s Metamorphosis A note on literal and figurative frames in Kafka’s novella.
2004-07-14 On Kafka's Metamorphosis A few thoughts on Kafka's nightmare vision of contemporary life.
2004-04-12 Baldwin’s ‘Sonny’s Blues Suffering, the Blues, and our (in)ability to listen.
2004-03-30 Virginia Woolf and The Hours Do we live in or just tolerate the hours?
2004-02-10 What Place Evolution? An observation on Jack London’s “To Build a Fire.”
2004-01-13 You Can’t Go Home Again Some notes of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1931 short story “Babylon Revisited.”
1997-10-06 Healthy Blasphemy: Dissenting Discourses in Rushdie and Bulgakov” My Master’s Thesis, published in this revised form in 1997.
1995-07-02 The Fall of a Sparrow: A Note on A Hero of Our Time and Hamlet A comparative note on acting and heroism.
1995-04-14 Apropos Sonnets 33, 34, and 35 A reading of Shakespeare’s sonnet trio.
1994-04-09 Bulgakov and Pasternack Considering the role of the artist in these twentieth-century Russian classics.
1993-12-19 Revisionary Mythmaking On Adrienne Rich and “Diving in the Wreck.”