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Author Olster, Stacey Michele.

Title Reminiscence and re-creation in contemporary American fiction / Stacey Olster.

Publication Info. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989.

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 Moore Stacks  PS374.H5 O47 1989    Available  ---
Description xiv, 215 pages ; 24 cm
Note Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Michigan.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-201).
Contents 1. A disruption of sensibility: A last millennial variant -- A long-distance affair -- An end to ideology -- 2. Transition to post-modernism: Norman Mailer and a new frontier in fiction: From liberalism to new historicism -- Process on display -- Process on record -- End of an era -- 3. Thomas Pynchon: an interface of history and science: Puritan heritage -- An entropic theory of history -- Mediating between the strands -- 4. John Barth: Clio as kin to Calliope: Eden revisited -- Literary legacy -- A nonrevolutionary novel -- Conclusion: "Subjective historicism."
Subject American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American fiction.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Historical fiction, American -- History and criticism.
Historical fiction, American.
Political fiction, American -- History and criticism.
Political fiction, American.
Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.
Postmodernism (Literature)
United States.
Memory in literature.
Memory in literature.
Indexed Term Fiction in English American writers, 1900- - Critical studies
ISBN 0521363837
0226775453 paperback