scholarly journals TREATMENT OF DEATH IN NORMAN MAILER'S AN AMERICAN DREAM

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan José Torres Núñez
Keyword(s):  
American Dream ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Norman Mailer ◽  
Single Instance ◽  
Joseph Heller

ABSTRACTIn the following article I show that in Norman Mailer's novel An American Dream cancer is everywhere. Cancer is used by Mailer to express universal madness. There is not one single instance of love in the whole book. Love is as real as murder and it has more power. Love becomes death. But there is only one instance in the novel where love seems to appear and that is in the honest attempt of the writer to convey the significance of that death. Norman Mailer loves his country. And like Joseph Heller, he is saying that Something Happened to America.

scholarly journals Deshumanización y destino en las narrativas bélicas de Joseph Heller y Norman Mailer: Coincidencias entre Match-22 y The Nacked and the Dead

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Javier Vallina Samperio
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
World Order ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Norman Mailer ◽  
New World Order ◽  
Present Study Deal ◽  
Common Features ◽  
Joseph Heller ◽  
Catch 22 ◽  
The Dead

ResumenLa segunda guerra mundial y los años posteriores a la misma dieron paso a un nuevo orden mundial en el que las personas, a merced de una alienante maquinaria social, experimentaron un progresivo deterioro de sus rasgos humanos. Las dos novelas estudiadas en el presente artículo abordan esta temática desde perspectivas distintas, pero con abundantes rasgos en común. Catch-22 utiliza fórmulas humorísticas y satíricas, mientras que The Naked and the Dead emplea un tono más sobrio y solemne. En dichas obras destacan los ambientes mecanicistas que anulan al ser humano, junto a la inexorable acción del destino o la fatalidad.Palabras clave: Joseph Heller, Norman Mailer, guerra, deshumanización, mecanicismo, entropía, destino.AbstractWorld War II and its aftermath gave way to a new world order and a mechanised society in which people progressively began losing both their human and humane traits. The two novels considered in the present study deal with these matters from different general viewpoints, but revealing several common features as well. Catch-22 uses humour and satire in its approach, whereas The Naked and the Dead adopts a more refl ective discourse of solemnity. Both works refer to mechanised environments that nullify human condition and render it insignifi cant, as they also focus on the element of destiny or fate.Key words: Joseph Heller, Norman Mailer, war, dehumanisation, mechanistic, entropy, destiny.

Negation in discourse: a text world approach to Joseph Heller’s Catch-22

2000 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 215-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Hidalgo-Downing
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Fictional World ◽  
Discourse Function ◽  
Joseph Heller ◽  
Form Part ◽  
The Common ◽  
Catch 22 ◽  
Flow Of Information ◽  
The Way

This article presents a discourse-based approach to negation by applying text world theory to the analysis of negation in the novel Catch-22, by Joseph Heller (1986 [1961]), The model developed for the analysis of negation is based on Werth’s (1999) notion of negation as a subworld which modifies information which is present in the common ground of the discourse. By so doing, negation contributes to the general discourse function of updating information in the text world. Additionally, negation may form part of contradictory structures which, being self-contained units, do not contribute to the updating discourse function but, rather, seem to block the flow of information. The analysis of the functions of negation is framed within a broader framework of stylistic analysis, where the objective is to discuss how the foregrounded nature of negation as a recursive feature in Catch-22 may have a defamiliarizing effect. The argument put forward in this article is that negation plays a crucial role in the expression of a conflict between what is presented as real and what is presented as not real in the fictional world; this conflict, in its turn, has important consequences for the way the story develops and the way major themes of the novel are treated.

scholarly journals Novel Cytomegalovirus UL54 DNA Polymerase Gene Mutations SelectedIn VitroThat Confer Brincidofovir Resistance

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (6) ◽  
pp. 3845-3848 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunwen Chou ◽  
Ronald J. Ercolani ◽  
E. Randall Lanier
Keyword(s):  
Dna Polymerase ◽  
Gene Mutations ◽  
Cross Resistance ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Resistance Mutations ◽  
Single Instance ◽  
Selection Experiments ◽  
Exonuclease Domain ◽  
Domain I

Eightin vitroselection experiments under brincidofovir pressure elicited the known cytomegalovirus DNA polymerase amino acid substitutions N408K and V812L and the novel exonuclease domain substitutions D413Y, E303D, and E303G, which conferred ganciclovir and cidofovir resistance with 6- to 11-fold resistance to brincidofovir or 17-fold when E303G was combined with V812L. The new exonuclease domain I resistance mutations selected under brincidofovir pressure add to the single instance previously reported and show the expected patterns of cross-resistance.

scholarly journals IDEA OF THE AMERICAN DREAM IN F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S NOVEL “TENDER IS THE NIGHT”

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 147-153
Author(s):  
ANAHIT SHAHMURADYAN ◽  
ANNA HARUTYUNYAN
Keyword(s):  
American Dream ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Tender Is The Night ◽  
The Way

The novel “Tender Is the Night” is one of the most prominent works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. He described his hero Dick as a smart, talented and a person full of spiritual richness, but who was unable to prevent himself from moral degradation. Doctor’s tragedy is not only personal, but also social. The American son of a clergyman who is on the way to becoming a renowned psychologist when he falls in love with Nicole and marries her. Dick is extraordinarily charismatic and graceful at the start of the novel, but eventually falls to his ruin.

scholarly journals Stephen Dixon's Novels: Autobiographicality as Transgression

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuliia Honcharova ◽  
Victoriia Lipina
Keyword(s):  
Life Experience ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
Special Kind ◽  
The Novel ◽  
John Barth ◽  
Joseph Heller ◽  
Mode Of Life ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New Form ◽  
Autobiographical Narrative

The idea advanced in the paper is to theorize the mechanisms of autobiographicality in Stephen Dixon’s novels that are viewed as a radical renewal of autobiographical narrative, where the modality of disappearance/return of the subject produces a new mode of life-writing. We propose the term “autobiographical transgression” to capture the essence of this renewal started by three representative figures – John Barth, Stephen Dixon, and Joseph Heller that can be reduced neither to autobiography as a genre, nor to “transgressive autobiography” as its generic variant. Dixon finds a new form for representing autos. He creates the character with the name-deixis I. that personifies a fiduciary subject, thus, suggesting a provocative restatement of postmodernist generic problems. In the novels I. and End of I. the autobiographical hero I. exists simultaneously as a metaphor of the author’s presence in the text, as the subjective author’s I and as a character in the novel − an objectified, semi-functional, distancing I. The transplanting of life experience manifests itself in a special kind of repersonalization and double coding of the traditional autobiographical subject.

Frederick Exley, A Fan’s Notes (1968): authenticity

2018 ◽  
pp. 155-175
Author(s):  
Steven Earnshaw
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
American Dream ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Fictional Memoir ◽  
Mental Well Being ◽  
Over Time

Fred Ex is the committed drinking protagonist of Frederick Exley’s A Fan’s Notes, in thrall to the career of the New York Giants footballer Frank Gifford. He realises he will never have fame of his own, and over time discovers himself to be alienated from all aspects of modern life and the American dream. The chapter analyses how these elements relate to Existential authenticity, including the novel’s play around the idea of ‘fictional memoir’ and autofiction. There are periods of depression for Fred Ex which lead to being committed to a mental asylum, and the chapter covers the philosophical issues around agency in relation to drinking and mental well-being. This chapter also looks at the protagonist as a developing writer since the novel is partly a künstlerroman, and how this in turn is entangled with drinking.

scholarly journals The Quest for Success and Power in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Novel The Beautiful and Damned

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 181
Author(s):  
Ala Eddin Sadeq
Keyword(s):  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
American Dream ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Will To Power ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Will

This study aims at investigating the concepts of success and power, as depicted by F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Beautiful and Damned (2009). Cultural change motivates individuals to work harder to achieve success, which in turn makes them influential. The study reveals that the concepts of success and power are controversial, as their means vary from one theorist to another.  Waldo Emerson, for example, believes that success is connected to happiness.  He, therefore, lists down features that characterize successful people. To succeed, one must learn to follow their desires, an argument that is expounded by the ideology of the American Dream.  Friedrich Nietzsche, however, explains that individuals are motivated to lead due to the fact that power brings about the superman. To achieve the status of the superman, Nietzsche believes that individuals develop the will to power and are able to influence others (Nietzsche, 1968). Fitzgerald, on the other hand, makes it clear that power leads to liberty. The novel provides a deep analysis of the quest for power and success. The main characters are Gloria, Joseph, and Anthony who helps to demonstrate the quest for success and power. Richard Caramel is also a character whose role explains the pursuit of true happiness. He is depicted as powerful because he influences the society through his writings. He has a strong determination to be a writer, which motivates him to work hard and to seek further success. 

scholarly journals Anti-Militarism in Joseph Heller's Catch-22

2015 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
SABAH SALIM JABBAR
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Air Force ◽  
The Novel ◽  
World War ◽  
Major Focus ◽  
Joseph Heller ◽  
Catch 22 ◽  
The Military

The paper attempts to address Joseph Heller in his novel, Catch-22 (1961). An examination of the content of the novel in relation to antimilitaristic concepts is a major focus of the paper. The paper depicts various characters in the novel and tries to show how they reflect antimilitarism. The effects of particular behaviors and the major events that take place in the Air Force are discussed in the paper. The story mainly revolves around some airmen who were combatants in World War II. The events discussed in the paper clearly highlight the sentiments held by antimilitarists on war issues. The plot of the novel is sequential and the description of events is comic. The characters represent various characteristics that can be used to develop a plot on antimilitarism. The paper bases its literature of the aspects of the military that necessitate and justify the rise and development of antimilitarism. Socialism is a notable aspect of antimilitarism while militarism seems to conform to capitalism. From an antimilitaristic perspective, capitalism is characterized by a type of bureaucracy that demoralizes soldiers and promotes individuality within the military. Catch-22 deals with all the militaristic and antimilitaristic factors and events that lead to the same aspects.

scholarly journals THE HEROISM TO GET DREAMS IN JOHN GRISHAM’S A PAINTED HOUSE

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-154
Author(s):  
Nasrawati Nasrawati
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
American Dream ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Mimetic Theory ◽  
Historical Approach

This graduating paper analyzes the American dream in 19th century by the two main characters in the novel. They are Luke Chandler and Mrs. Jesse Chandler. The two of these characters represent the condition and situation of the Americans especially the American farmers at the time trough their characterizations. In this research, the writer focuses on researching these two main characters by using Mimetic theory, including historical approach. The objectives of this research are, first, to know what kind of dream that the characters want to get and the second is what they do to get their dreams, how they do, and why they must to do something to get their dreams. This research displays that these two characters have some attitudes and actions which show the heroism. Therefore, these two characters can be called heroic in terms of the struggle to get their dreams for the better life.

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