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Reminiscence and Re-creation in Contemporary American Fiction Olster Hardback

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Reminiscence and Re-creation in Contemporary American Fiction

Olster analyzes in detail historical narrative configurations in the works of Norman Mailer, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Robert Coover and E. L. Doctorow.

Stacey Olster (Author)

9780521363839, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 28 April 1989

232 pages

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.51 kg

\""In an excellent critical study of the relationship between American literature and American history, Stacey Olster offers an illuminating apologia for American post-modernist writers...Olster's argument is thought-provoking, written in lively and clear prose, and is impressively well-researched and documented.\""

American Literature

Post-modernist fiction apparently presents a world of chance and randomness, devoid of historical intelligibility. Focusing on American post-modernist writers, Stacey Olster offers a challenge to this perception, showing how the experience of political and historical events has shap]

Reminiscence and Re-creation in Contemporary American Fiction Olster Hardback

Reminiscence and Re-creation in Contemporary American Fiction

Olster analyzes in detail historical narrative configurations in the works of Norman Mailer, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Robert Coover and E. L. Doctorow.

Stacey Olster (Author)

9780521363839, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 28 April 1989

232 pages

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.51 kg

\""In an excellent critical study of the relationship between American literature and American history, Stacey Olster offers an illuminating apologia for American post-modernist writers...Olster's argument is thought-provoking, written in lively and clear prose, and is impressively well-researched and documented.\""

American Literature

Post-modernist fiction apparently presents a world of chance and randomness, devoid of historical intelligibility. Focusing on American post-modernist writers, Stacey Olster offers a challenge to this perception, showing how the experience of political and historical events has shap]

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