American Minimalism: The Western Vernacular in Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song.
This paper identifies and discusses the western vernacular and minimalist tendencies in Norman Mailer’s 1980 Pulitzer Prize winning “true-life story” The Executioner’s Song. Mailer’s use of a lean, often flat style of narration is read in relation to Truman Capote’s “non-fiction novel” In Cold Bloo...
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European Association for American Studies
2009-05-01
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| Series: | European Journal of American Studies |
| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/7532 |
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