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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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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  813.5209 O52R    Check Shelf
Description xiv, 213 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. The transition to post-modernism: Norman Mailer and a new frontier in fiction: From liberalism to new historicism -- The process on display -- The process on record -- The end of an era -- 3. Thomas Pynchon: an interface of history and science: The Puritan heritage -- An entropic theory of history -- Mediating between the strands -- 4. John Barth: Clio as kin to Calliope: Eden revisited -- The literary legacy -- A nonrevolutionary novel -- Conclusion: "Subjective historicism".
Subject American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Historical fiction, American -- History and criticism.
Political fiction, American -- History and criticism.
Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.
Memory in literature.
ISBN 0521363837
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