E.L. Doctorow : : A Reconsideration / / Michael Wutz, Julian Murphet.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Wutz, Michael,; Murphet, Julian,
• MitwirkendeR: Arch, Stephen,; Avery, Tamlyn,; Azzopardi, Mark,; DeLillo, Don,; Egan, Jennifer,; Frank, Nathan D.,; Howard, Alexander,; Kwon, Jieun,; Murgatroyd, Nicholas,; Murphet, Julian,; Navasky, Victor S.,; Wutz, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

Showcases the life-work of one of America’s greatest contemporary novelistsEssays written by an international set of scholarsContributions by prominent fiction writers and friends of Doctorow: Don DeLillo, Victor Navasky, and Jennifer EganPays particular attention to the extraordinary novels of Doct...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Contributors
• Introduction
• Part I: Generic Border Crossings
• 1. Doctorow and the Halbbildungsroman
• 2. “The Dark Horrors of Consciousness”: Doctorow and the Gothic
• 3. E. L. Doctorow as Short-Story Writer
• Part II: Politics, Allegory, Difference
• 4. Submerged Politics and the Artist
• 5. Redeeming the National Ideal: Revisiting E. L. Doctorow’s The Book of Daniel and Its Political Implications
• 6. “A Rearrangement of Molecules”: On Doctorow’s Perpetual Motion Machines
• 7. Cocks, Corsets, Clocks: E. L. Doctorow and the Tunnel of Love
• 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
• 9. City of God / City of Bits: Signs, Signals, Noise
• Part IV: Tributes
• 10. E. L. Doctorow: Inhabiting History
• 11. The Polyphonic Past
• 12. A Half Century of Friendship and Literary Greatness
• Index