E. L. Doctorow : a reconsideration / edited by Michael Wutz and Julian Murphet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wutz, Michael, Author.

Contributor:

Murphet, Julian, editor.

Wutz, Michael, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Doctorow, E. L.

Doctorow, E. L., 1931-2015.

Historical fiction, American--History and criticism.

Historical fiction, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 253 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh, United Kingdom : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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 Doctorow in the last 20 years, including The Waterworks, City of God, and a set of his recent preoccupations: corporate and religious power, cognitive science, and media cultureThis book gathers a suite of newly commissioned, original essays on the work of E. L. Doctorow. It reframes our understanding of his oeuvre by engaging it in entirety, including the significant accomplishments of the late period. The book features chapters by prominent fiction writers and friends of Doctorow, such as Don DeLillo, Victor Navasky and Jennifer Egan and explores Doctorow’s novels and his diverse preoccupations: corporate and religious power, cognitive science and media culture.

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-5885-8

OCLC:

1306541430