Reporting the universe / E.L. Doctorow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doctorow, E. L., 1931-2015.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

William E. Massey, Sr. lectures in the history of American civilization ; 2000.

The William E. Massey Sr. lectures in the history of American civilization ; 2000

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Doctorow, E. L., 1931-2015.

Doctorow, E. L.

Novelists, American--20th century--Biography.

Novelists, American.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 125 pages, 7 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2003.

Summary:

. "The writer," according to Emerson, "believes all that can be thought can be written...In his eyes a man is the faculty of reporting, and the universe is the possibility of being reported." And what writer worth his name, E. L. Doctorow asks, will not seriously, however furtively, take on the universe? Human consciousness, personal history, American literature, religion, and politics--these are the far-flung coordinates of the universe that Doctorow reports here, a universe that uniquely and brilliantly reflects our contemporary scene.

Contents:

Emerson 1

Childhood of a Writer 9

Kenyon 39

Texts That Are Sacred, Texts That Are Not 51

First Novel 57

Deism 63

The Little Bang 75

Why We Are Infidels 83

The Politics of God 89

The Civil Religion 99

Canto XXV 103

Apprehending Reality 107

Paradise Lost 111

Literature as Religion 119.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy is "First Harvard University Press paperback edition 2004".

ISBN:

0674004612

0674016289

OCLC:

50767774