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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.

American literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- Herinnering in de literatuur --- Memory in literature --- Mémoire dans la littérature --- American fiction --- Historical fiction, American --- Political fiction, American --- Postmodernism --- Roman américain --- Roman historique américain --- Politique-fiction américaine --- Postmodernisme --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Memory in literature. --- History and criticism. --- 820 <73>-3 --- -Historical fiction, American --- -Memory in literature --- -Postmodernism (Literature) --- -American political fiction --- Memory as a theme in literature --- American historical fiction --- Amerikaanse literatuur: proza --- -Amerikaanse literatuur: proza --- 820 <73>-3 Amerikaanse literatuur: proza --- -Memory as a theme in literature --- American political fiction --- Roman américain --- Roman historique américain --- Politique-fiction américaine --- Mémoire dans la littérature --- 20th century --- Historical fiction [American ] --- Political fiction [American ] --- United States --- Mailer, Norman --- Criticism and interpretation --- Pynchon, Thomas --- Barth, John --- Coover, Robert Lowell --- Doctorow, Edgar Laurence --- Kennedy, John Fitzgerald --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature

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DeLillo, Don --- Criticism and interpretation

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John Updike is one of the most prolific and important American authors of the contemporary period, with an acclaimed body of work that spans half a century and is inspired by everything from American exceptionalism to American popular culture. This Companion joins together a distinguished international team of contributors to address both the major themes in Updike's writing as well as the sources of controversy that Updike's writing has often provoked. It traces the ways in which historical and cultural changes in the second half of the twentieth century have shaped not just Updike's reassessment of America's heritage, but his reassessment of the literary devices by which that legacy is best portrayed. With a chronology and bibliography of Updike's published writings, this is the only guide students and scholars of Updike will need to understand this extraordinary writer.

Updike, John --- Criticism and interpretation. --- 820 "19" UPDIKE, JOHN --- Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--UPDIKE, JOHN --- 820 "19" UPDIKE, JOHN Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--UPDIKE, JOHN --- Apdajk, Džon --- Apdaĭk, Dzhon --- אפדייק, ג"ון --- أبدايك، جون --- English --- American Literature --- Languages & Literatures --- Updike, John (1932-2009) --- Critique et interprétation

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