Reminiscence and Re-Creation in Contemporary American Fiction |
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| Author:
| Olster, Stacey |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-10980-2 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2009 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $37.99 |
Book Description:
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Focusing on American post-modernist writers, Stacey Olster offers a challenge to the perception of a world of chance and randomness, devoid of historical intelligibility, showing how the experience of political and historical events has shaped the novelist's perspective. Olster analyzes in detail historical narrative configurations in the works of Norman Mailer, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Robert Coover and E. L. Doctorow.
Focusing on American post-modernist writers, Stacey Olster offers a challenge to the perception of a world of chance and randomness, devoid of historical intelligibility, showing how the experience of political and historical events has shaped the novelist's perspective. Olster analyzes in detail historical narrative configurations in the works of Norman Mailer, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Robert Coover and E. L. Doctorow.