English Department Faculty

Stacey Olster, Selected Publications, continued

• "The Way We Were(n't): Origins and Empire in Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon."  American Fiction of the 1990s: Reflections of History and Culture.  Ed. Jay Prosser.  London: Routledge, 2008.  107-19.
• "White Noise."  The Cambridge Companion to Don DeLillo.  Ed. John N. Duvall.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.  79-93.
• "Lot 49: Science and the Novel of Systems."  Approaches to Teaching Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 and Other Works.  Ed. Thomas H. Schaub.  New York: Modern Language Association, 2008.  66-75.
  
• "'Uadorned Woman, Beauty's Home Image': Updike's Rabbit, Run." Rpt. in John Updike: The Critical Responses to the "Rabbit" Saga. Ed. Jack De Bellis. Critical Rsponses in Arts and Letters. Westport, CT: Praeger-Greenwood, 2005. 33-50.
• "A 'Patch of England, at a three-thousand-Mile Off-set': Representing America in Mason & Dixon." Modern Fiction Studies, 50 (2004): 283-302.
• "Norman Mailer After Forty Years." Rpt. in Norman Mailer. Ed. Harold Bloom. Modern Critical Views. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2003: 51-66.
• "Gilbert Sorrentino's Problematic Middle Child: Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things." The Review of Contemporary Fiction 23.1 (2003): 70-89. Rpt. In Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things, by Gilbert Sorrentino. Ed. David Andrews. Online casebook. Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, forthcoming.
• "A Mother (and a Son, and a Brother, and a Wife, et al.) in History: Stories Galore in Libra and the Warren Commission Report." Productive Postmodernism: Consuming Histories and Cultural Studies. Ed. John N. Duvall. New York: SUNY Press, 2002. 43-59.
• "Cut and Print! The Gulf War as Movie Narrative in Larry Beinhart's American Hero." Critique 40 (1999): 387-98.
• "'Two People Who Didn't Argue, Even, Except over the Use of the Subjunctive': Jean Harris, the Scarsdale Diet Doctor Murder, and Diana Trilling." Critical Inquiry 25 (1998): 77-94.
• "Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something (Red, White, and) Blue: Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged and Objectivist Ideology." In The Other Fifties: Interrogating Midcentury American Icons. Ed. Joel Foreman. Urbana: U of Illinois Press, 1997. 288-306.
• "Remakes, Outtakes, and Updates in Susan Sontag's The Volcano Lover." Modern Fiction Studies 41 (1995): 117-39.
• "Hebrew/Greek, Ear/Eye, Moral/Aesthetic: Susan Sontag's Bridging the 'Archaic Gap.'" Critical Essays on American Postmodernism. Ed. Stanley Trachtenberg. Critical Essays on American Literature. New York: Hall-Macmillan, 1995. 192-202.
• "When You're a (Nin)jette You're a (Nin)jette All the Way--Or Are You? Female Filmmaking in Vineland." In The Vineland Papers: Critical Takes on Pynchon's Novel. Ed. Geoffrey Green, Donald J. Greiner, and Larry McCaffery. Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 1994. 119-34.
• "'Unadorned Woman, Beauty's Home Image': Updike's Rabbit Run." In New Essays on Rabbit, Run. Ed. Stanley Trachtenberg. New York: Cambridge UP, 1993. 95-117.
• "Photographs and Fantasies in the Stories of Ann Beattie." Rpt. In The Critical Response to Ann Beattie. Ed. Jaye Berman Montresor. Critical Responses in Arts and Letters. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993. 117-28.
• Rabbit is Redundant: Updike's End of an American Epoch." Neo-Realism in Contemporary American Fiction. Ed. Kristiaan Versluys. Postmodern Studies 5. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1992. 111-29.
• "Robert Coover." Post-war Literatures in English 17 (1992): 1-13.
• "Rabbit Rerun: Updike's Replay of Popular Culture in Rabbit at Rest." Modern Fiction Studies 37 (1991): 45-59.
• "Norman Mailer After Forty Years." Michigan Quarterly Review 28 (1989): 400-16.
• "The 'Other' in Nathanael West's Fiction: Jewish Rejection or Jewish Projection." MELUS 15.4 (1988): 51-65.
• "Photographs and Fantasies in the Stories of Ann Beattie." Since Flannery O'Connor: Essays on the Contemporary American Short Story. Ed. Loren Logsdon and Charles W. Mayer. Macomb, IL: Essays in Literature Book, 1987. 113-23.
• "Inconstant Harmony in The Tin Drum." Studies in the Novel 14.1 (1982): 66-81.

• Review of Narrative Innovation and Cultural Rewriting in the Cold War Era and After, by Marcel Cornis-Pope. Modern Fiction Studies, forthcoming.
• "Rediscovering the Humane in the Human." Review of The Gnostic Pynchon, by Dwight Eddins. Pynchon Notes 26-27 (1990): 163-66.
• Review of Reconstructing American Literary History, ed. Sacvan Bercovitch. Legacy 4.1 (1987): 50.
• Review of The 60s, Without Apology, ed. Sohnya Sayres, Anders Stephanson, Stanley Aronowitz, and Fredric Jameson. minnesota review 26 (1986): 148-51.