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3. E. L. Doctorow as Short-Story Writer

2019
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The Politics of Polyphony: The Fiction of E. L. Doctorow

Twentieth Century Literature, 1991
"The chief business of twentieth-century philosophy," R. G. Collingwood remarks in his Autobiography, "is to reckon with twentiethcentury history." In the fifty years since Collingwood wrote those words that "reckoning" with history has become increasingly problematic, especially when considering the situation of the contemporary writer. Describing the
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Loon Lake: E. L. Doctorow's Pastoral Romance

Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 2012
Loon Lake has baffled critics for whom its overall meaning has remained largely elusive and its structure difficult to decode because they have read it without attention to its proper generic context. This article shows how E. L. Doctorow, relying on his deep apprehension of the pastoral romance, consistently uses topoi, thematic and structural motifs ...
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The Revision of the Western in E. L. Doctorow's Welcome to Hard Times

American Literature, 1989
N the late 1950S and the early I96os, many writers beginning their literary careers grew convinced that the existing artistic conventions of the novel were no longer viable, since the realistic aesthetic of the nineteenth century, the modernist experimentation of the early part of the twentieth, and the liberal and existential novel of the period after
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The Waterworks : E. L. Doctorow's Gnostic Detective Story

Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 2003
Readers of E. L. Doctorow's most recent novel City of God (2000) were often puzzled and perhaps disappointed to see that Doctorow, who has long been recognized as a political writer and historical novelist, extended his range of interest from politics and history to an overt investigation of religious questions.1 Yet such a move was clearly signaled in
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The Search for Reconciliation in E. L. Doctorow's City of God

Religion and the Arts, 2006
AbstractE. L. Doctorow's novel City of God is constructed around a crisis of faith experienced by an Episcopalian minister who eventually converts to Judaism. Within and around this personal story unfolds a fascinating array of moral and spiritual dilemmas which raise provocative questions about the role of religion in modern society and its ...
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E. L. Doctorow

1992
This essay offers an extended overview of E. L. Doctorow's literary production, giving special emphasis to analyzing how each of his books, although very distinctive in terms of style and tone and in revitalizing the conventions of a genre, is characterized by an exploration of American history and myth, a probing of evil and individual responsibility,
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Cutting Both Ways: E. L. Doctorow's Critique of the Left

South Atlantic Review, 1993
THE EXPERIMENTAL, "POSTMODERN" elements in E. L. Doctorow's novels are remarked upon by virtually all his critics. In most of his major novels the narrative voice is self-conscious and calls attention to itself. In his first novel, Welcome to Hard Times (1960), the narrator Blue is writing his story in old ledgers and reflects on his penchant, even ...
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Historicizing Fiction and Fictionalizing History: The Case of E. L. Doctorow

Prospects, 1980
Histories and novels are old allies, but the alliance is now troubled. The historian C. Vann Woodward told a convention of historians a decade ago that “our kindship is actually much closer to novelists” than to social scientists. Both the novel and history, he pointed out, “sprang from a common parentage of story-telling” and “competed with each other
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E. L. Doctorow.

American Literature, 1991
Daniel L. Zins, John G. Parks
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