E.L. Doctorow, essays and conversations / [print] edited by Richard Trenner. - Princeton, New Jersey : Ontario Review Press ; (c)1983. New York : Distributed by Persea Books, (c)1983. - vii, 216 pages : portraits ; 24 cm. - Ontario Review Press critical series . - Ontario Review Press critical series. .

Includes bibliographical references.

For the artist's sake ; -- False documents A spirit of transgression Politics and the mode of fiction The writer as independent witness The stylistic energy of E.L. Doctorow Radical Jewish humanism : the vision of E.L. Doctorow Tales of obscene power : money and culture, modernism and history in the fiction of E.L. Doctorow The Reds and Ragtime : the Soviet reception of E.L. Doctorow From U.S.A. to Ragtime : notes on the forms of historical consciousness in modern fiction The German source of Ragtime : a note The conspiracy of history : E.L. Doctorow's The book of Daniel Surviving McCarthyism : E.L. Doctorow's The book of Daniel History as fate in E.L. Doctorow's Tale of a Western town E.L. Doctorow -- Larry McCaffery -- Richard Trenner -- Paul Levine -- Arthur Saltzman -- John Clayton -- David S. Gross -- Ellen Chances -- Barbara Foley -- John Ditsky -- Paul Levine -- Barbara L. Estrin -- Marilyn Arnold.



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Doctorow, E. L., 1931- --Criticism and interpretation.
Doctorow, E. L., 1931- --Interviews.


Historical fiction, American--History and criticism.
Novelists, American--20th century--Interviews.
Historical fiction--Authorship.

PS3554 PS3554.T794.E436 1983