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Understanding E.L. Doctorow Understanding Contemporary American Literature
author
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Fowler, Douglas.
publisher
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University of South Carolina Press
isbn10 | asin
:
0872498190
print isbn13
:
9780872498198
ebook isbn13
:
9780585324449
language
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English
subject
Doctorow, E. L.,--1931- --Criticism and interpretation, Historical fiction, American--History and criticism.
publication date
:
1992
lcc
:
PS3554.O3Z65 1992eb
ddc
:
813/.54
subject
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Doctorow, E. L.,--1931- --Criticism and interpretation, Historical fiction, American--History and criticism.
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Understanding E. L. Doctorow
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Understanding Contemporary American Literature Matthew J. Bruccoli, Editor
Understanding Bernard Malamud by Jeffrey Helterman
Understanding James Dickey by Ronald Baughman
Understanding John Hawkes by Donald J. Greiner
Understanding Thomas Pynchon by Robert D. Newman
Understanding Randall Jarrell by J. A. Bryant, Jr.
Understanding Edward Albee by Matthew C. Roudan
Understanding Contemporary American Drama by William Herman
Understanding Vladimir Nabokov by Stephen Jan Parker
Understanding Joyce Carol Oates by Greg Johnson
Understanding Theodore Roethke by Walter K. Kalaidjian
Understanding Mary Lee Settle by George Garrett
Understanding Isaac Bashevis Singer by Lawrence S. Friedman
Understanding George Garrett by R. H. W. Dillard
Understanding Walker Percy by Linda Whitney Hobson
Understanding Chicano Literature by Carl R. Shirley and Paula W. Shirley
Understanding Denise Levertov by Harry Marten
Understanding Raymond Carver by Arthur M. Saltzman
Understanding Katherine Anne Porter by Darlene Harbour Unrue
Understanding Robert Bly by William V. Davis
Understanding William Stafford by Judith Kitchen
Understanding Carson McCullers by Virginia Spencer Carr
Understanding John Barth by Stan Fogel and Gordon Slethaug
Understanding Contemporary American Science Fiction by Thomas Clareson
Understanding Philip Roth by Murray Baumgarten and Barbara Gottfried
Understanding Kurt Vonnegut by William Rodney Allen
Understanding Donald Barthelme by Stanley Trachtenberg
Understanding Anne Tyler by Alice Hall Petry
Understanding Joseph Heller by Sanford Pinsker
Understanding William Kennedy by J. K. Van Dover
Understanding John Irving by Edward C. Reilly
Understanding Cynthia Ozick by Lawrence S. Friedman
Understanding the Beats by Edward Halsey Foster
Understanding Gary Snyder by Patrick D. Murphy
Understanding E. L. Doctorow by Douglas Fowler
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UNDERSTANDING E. L. DOCTOROW
Douglas Fowler
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For Suzanne
Copyright 1992 University of South Carolina
Published in Columbia, South Carolina, by the University of South Carolina Press
Manufactured in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Fowler, Douglas. Understanding E. L. Doctorow / Douglas Fowler. p. cm.(Understanding contemporary American literature) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87249-819-0 (alk. paper) 1. Doctorow, E. L., 1931 Criticism and interpretation. I. Title. II. Series. PS3554.03Z65 1992 813'.54dc20 928042
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Contents
Editor's Preface
vii
Introduction
1
Chapter 1: Welcome to Hard Times
9
Chapter 2: Big as Life
21
Chapter 3: The Book of Daniel
31
Chapter 4: Ragtime
57
Chapter 5: Loon Lake
85
Chapter 6: Lives of the Poets
109
Chapter 7: World's Fair
127
Chapter 8: Billy Bathgate
145
Bibliography
161
Index
167
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Editor's Preface
Understanding Contemporary American Literature has been planned as a series of guides or companions for students as well as good nonacademic readers. The editor and publisher perceive a need for these volumes because much of the influential contemporary literature makes special demands. Uninitiated readers encounter difficulty in approaching works that depart from the traditional forms and techniques of prose and poetry. Literature relies on conventions, but the conventions keep evolving; new writers form their own conventionswhich in time may become familiar. Put simply,
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