Bücher von Susan Strehle

This book analyzes a significant group of contemporary historical fictions that represent damaging, even catastrophic times for people and communities; In sympathy with the exiled, writers of these contemporary historical fictions create alternative communities on the state's outer fringes.

In this outstanding book Susan Strehle argues that a new fiction has developed from the influence of modern physics. She calls this new fiction actualism, and within that framework she offers a critical analysis of major novels by Thomas Pynchon, Robert Coover, William Gaddis, John Barth, Margaret Atwood, and Donald Barthelme.