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• Title: Washed by the Swells of Time: Reading Mailer, 1998-2008 (Norman Mailer) (Critical Essay)
• Author : The Mailer Review
• Release Date : January 22, 2009
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 246 KB

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"The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people," Mailer wrote just under a half-century ago (Advertisements 384), but the majority of serious readers today would not pick up Mailer by that handle. Perhaps it is the business of Mailer scholarship, first and foremost, to ask whether we should. The inquiry would, at its fullest, have implications that extend far beyond Mailer scholarship, which is a way of saying that Mailer is not (or in a just world would not be) merely of interest to specialists. Implication one: Art has a final purpose, so it is not a plaything, a distraction. To say that art has a final purpose is to say that all of it, all of life's parts, actually matter. This fragment of a thought takes us to the Mailerian test--and he was an "essayist" who tested and tried out ideas even when writing gigantic novels-of a Manichean world view which, for Mailer at least, had the great utility of making life meaningful especially in the face of cultural forces that trivialize meaning-making activities.

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