Item #286058 An American Dreamer: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Fiction of Norman Mailer. Andrew Gordon.

An American Dreamer: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Fiction of Norman Mailer

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Item #286058
ISBN: 0838621589

234 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Analyzes Muller's achievement from The Naked and the Dead through The Armies of the Night. using the techniques of depth psychology developed by Freud and certain post-Freudians. In particular, it explores the interrelated concerns in Mailer's fiction of sex, anality, violence, and power.

Price: $12.00

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