Reminiscence and Re-creation in Contemporary American Fiction(English, Hardcover, Olster Stacey)

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Reminiscence and Re-creation in Contemporary American Fiction(English, Hardcover, Olster Stacey) is written by Olster Stacey and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0521363837 (ISBN 10) and 9780521363839 (ISBN 13).

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 shaped the novelist's perspective. Communism after World War II proved particularly instrumental in this capacity; the failure of the Communist ideal in Russia forced a change in the literary perspective of history during the 1950s. Olster analyzes in detail historical narrative configurations in the works of a pivotal group of writers. Norman Mailer, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Robert Coover and E. L. Doctorow share a common vision of historical movement in the shape of an open-ended spiral. The modes of temporal movement constructed by these authors manage to recall an early Puritan prototype while remaining nonapocalyptic in direction.