Reminiscence and Re-creation in Contemporary American Fiction

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. DoctorowStacey Olster is the author of 'Reminiscence and Re-creation in Contemporary American Fiction', published 1989 under ISBN 9780521363839 and ISBN 0521363837.