E.L. DOCTOROW : a reconsideration. - [Place of publication not identified] EDINBURGH UNIV Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Michael Wutz and Julian Murphet -- Part I. Generic Border Crossings -- 1. Doctorow and the Halbbildungsroman -- Tamlyn Avery -- 2. "The Dark Horrors of Consciousness": Doctorow and the Gothic -- Stephen Arch -- 3. E.L. Doctorow as Short-Story Writer -- Mark Azzopardi -- Part II. Politics, Allegory, Difference -- 4. Submerged Politics and the Artist -- Nicholas Murgatroyd -- 5. Redeeming the National Ideal: Revisiting E.L. Doctorow's The Book of Daniel and Its Political Implications -- Jieun Kwon 6. "A Rearrangement of Molecules": On Doctorow's Perpetual Motion Machines -- Julian Murphet -- 7. Cocks, Corsets, Clocks: E.L. Doctorow and the Tunnel of Love -- Alexander Howard -- Part III. Narrative, Media, and Cognition: The Case of City of God -- 8. Literary Neutrinos and the Hot Dark Matters of Doctorow's City of God -- Nathan D. Frank -- 9. City of God / Michael Wutz -- Part IV. Tributes -- 10. E.L. Doctorow: Inhabiting History -- Jennifer Egan -- 11. The Polyphonic Past -- Don DeLillo -- 12. A Half Century of Friendship and Literary Greatness City of Bits: Signs, Signals, Noise -- Victor S. Navasky -- Index

This book gathers a suite of newly commissioned, original essays on the work of E.L. Doctorow.



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2019457828

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019531036 Uk


Doctorow, E. L., 1931-2015 --Criticism and interpretation.


Electronic Books.

PS3554 / .E436 2019