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Spirit of Place in Mailer's The Naked and the Dead

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2009

Nigel Leigh
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Dr. Nigel Leigh is a a postdoctoral student in the Department of American Studies, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, England. He has just been appointed Writer and on-screen Invigilator of the BBC TV SuperChannel quiz programme, Going for Gold.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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References

1 Mailer, Norman, The Naked and the Dead (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1948)Google Scholar. References are to this edition.

2 Lawrence, D. H., Studies in Classic American Literature (1924; rept. London: Heineman, 1964), 18.Google Scholar

3 Alfred, Kazin ed., Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, third series (New York: Viking Press, 1967), 261.Google Scholar

4 With this he becomes Ahab as seen by Olson, Charles, attempting to “dominate external reality” (Robert, Creeley, ed., Selected Writings of Charles Olson, New York: New Directions, 1966, 62).Google Scholar

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10 Yi-Fu Tuan's neologism which denotes the “affective bond between people and place or setting” (Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes and Values, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1974, 4).Google Scholar