E.l. Doctorow - A Reconsideration

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

Sommario

Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors

Introduction: E. L. Doctorow Reconsidered, Michael Wutz and Julian Murphet


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

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

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 Frank
9. City of God / City of Bits: Signs, Signals, Noise, Michael Wutz

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, Victor Navasky


Index

Riassunto

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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Michael (Rodney H Brady Presidential Disting Wutz, Michael Mruphet Wutz, Michael Murphet Wutz, WUTZ MICHAEL
• Con la collaborazione di: Julian Mruphet (Editore), Julian Murphet (Editore), Julian (Jury Professor of English Language and Literature Murphet (Editore), Michael Wutz (Editore), Michael (Rodney H Brady Presidential Distinguished Professor Wutz (Editore)
• Editore: Edinburgh University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781474458832
• ISBN: 978-1-4744-5883-2
• Pagine: 256
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese