Norman Mailer's World:The Naked and The Dead

摘要

Norman Mailer is an American novelist,and social criteic.He is a prolific writer.He never stops writing all his life.In 1998,he published the book,the Time of Our Time which received great attention in the circles of America literature.However,his reputation is fully established on his first novel,the Naked and the Dead,which came out in 1948.The Naked and the Dead wasa solid job of social criticism in one of the main traditions of American writing.Superficially,it is a war novel or a realistic documentary in which we see everything that happened in the war.Actually,the novel is more than these things,the message that is revealed in the novel is the much exposure of the sicknesses of American society.In the Naked and the Dead,we see a dying world in which men's effort was in vain and women were treated unfairly,to a greater degree,even as

目录

Ⅰ. THE INTRODUCTION

Ⅱ. A NOVEL AS A REALISTIC DOCUMENTARY

Ⅲ. A NOVEL AS A SOCIAL CRITIQUE

1. The fascism in the desire for power and the despair at the plight of the individual in the dying world

2. The common men's tragic struggle for recognition in the dying world

3. Women are prejudiced by men in the dying world

4. The morbid neuroses, ambitions sand anxieties of men in the dying world

5. It is not fate or God but the inferior deities -the men who function in the dying world

6. The dehumanization in the dying world

Ⅳ. THE CONCLUSION

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