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The Role of Music in E. L. Doctorow’s City of God

open access: yesAmerican & British Studies Annual, 2022
E. L. Doctorow became world-famous primarily for his novel Ragtime (1975), which references a distinct style of playing the piano that had a profound impact on the development of jazz.
Marek Gajda
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“Little Criminals of perception”: história e memória nos narradores de World’s Fair e The Book of Daniel, de E. L. Doctorow [PDF]

open access: yesRevista de Estudos Literários da UEMS - REVELL, 2020
Os romances de E. L. Doctorow tocam pontos nevrálgicos da história norte-americana, sobretudo no Século XX. Em A Grande Feira (1985), o narrador nos leva, por suas memórias de infância, aos Estados Unidos do final da década de 30.
Marcelo Cizaurre Guirau
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Philosophy of History in E. L. Doctorow’s Welcome to Hard Times and Its Affinities with the Biblical Book of Ecclesiastes

open access: yesالأستاذ, 2021
Unlike the majority of E. L. Doctorow’s novels which present a revisionary account of specific periods in American history, his first novel, Welcome to Hard Times, deals with history in a more general and allegorical manner. The narrator of the novel is
Ph.D. candidate Hossein Torkamannejad   +1 more
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A Book on the Making of Lonesome Dove, by John Spong

open access: yesAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 2013
The Western is surely one of the most enduring and characteristically American genres. Its exponents in cinema have included such distinguished filmmakers as John Ford, Howard Hawks, Budd Boetticher, Sam Peckinpah and Clint Eastwood.
Matthew Carter
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O espaço liminar das listas em romances em inglês

open access: yesScripta, 2018
A esperança, a imagem e a resposta utópicas discutidas por Terry Eagleton e Georg Lukács se tornam evidentes em The studhorse man de Robert Kroetsch, Waiting for the barbarians de J. M. Coetzee, The god of small things de Arundhati Roy e City of god de E.
Luiz Fernando Ferreira Sá
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MIHI QUAESTIO FACTUS SUM (“I HAVE BECOME A QUESTION TO MYSELF”, AUGUSTINE: CONFESSIONS X. XXXIII):

open access: yesActa Theologica, 2019
This article explores a suggested radical instability of knowing human persons – selves and others – and the perennial undecidability of claims about what may be true with respect to them, by employing the novels of Philip Roth and E. L. Doctorow.
F. England
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(Un)homely Dwellings: The Usher House and the Collyer Mansion

open access: yesEuropean Journal of American Studies, 2017
In this paper, I analyze E. L. Doctorow’s 2009 novel, Homer & Langley, through the lens of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Fall of the House of Usher.” While there has been a recurring claim about the significant similarities of Doctorow’s work to ...
Theodora Tsimpouki
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Branded in his Mind: Trauma, Violence and Memory in E. L. Doctorow’s The Book of Daniel 1

open access: yesNJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2014
E. L. Doctorow’s The Book of Daniel (1971) is unequivocally what has been termed a “trauma novel.” This paper examines the protagonist’s traumatic condition, concentrating on its causes and on the determining circumstances that contribute to aggravating
María Ferrández
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Phonic Musicality as a Means of Recoding in E. L. Doctorow’s Ragtime

open access: yesAmerican and British Studies Annual, 2016
The article examines art interactions, one of the most topical problems in literary criticism, in the form of literary-musical intermedial aspects in E. L. Doctorow’s Ragtime.
Lidia Bilonozhko
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The Role of African American Music in E. L. Doctorow’s The March

open access: yesAmerican and British Studies Annual, 2019
This paper explores the role of African American music in E. L. Doctorow’s historical novel The March (2005), with a focus on selected scenes in which this type of music occurs.
Marek Gajda
doaj  

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