Document Type
Thesis - campus only access
Date of Award
Summer 1967
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
English
Advisor
Dr. William R. Thompson
Abstract
Norman Mailer's romantic conception of the frontier as possibility or the uncreated future and the frontiersman as symbol of resistance, individualism, resolution, courage, and self-reliance has led Mailer gradually to transform the resolute and courageous pioneer into the bad man, who, in the guise of the Hipster, becomes the hero of Mailer's latest novel, An American Dream. The study, treating both Mailer's non-fiction prose and his novels, examines first the traditional uses of the frontier metaphor in American literature and then Mailer's use of frontier metaphor to determine how his conception of the frontier follows or deviates from the traditional concept. The procedure is to show first Mailer's use of the frontier, then his use of the frontiersman, and finally his development of the bad man as hero.
Recommended Citation
Witt, Grace P., "Norman Mailer's Use of Frontier Metaphor" (1967). Master's Theses. 1106.
DOI: 10.58809/IOWW9640
Available at:
https://scholars.fhsu.edu/theses/1106
Rights
© 1967 Grace P. Witt
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