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Narrating history: E.L. Doctorow’s The Book of Daniel

Revue française d’études américaines, 1987
A « poetics of engagement » has constantly underpinned E.L. Doctorow's novelistic projects. The Book of Daniel explores the nature of historical narrative as it is expressed through the making of a fiction based on historical events. « True History », Doctorow would have us consider as interpretation ; he uses his narrator's irony to convey this ...
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"An Interview with E. L. Doctorow"

1999
Published in the prestigious "Literary Conversations Series," this interview with E. L. Doctorow covers his theories of fiction, his practice as a novelist, his interest in narration and history, and his thoughts on the role of the writer in relation to American culture.
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E. L. Doctorow's "Ragtime"

2011
This essay examines "Ragtime" as a late twentieth century historical romance and discusses its counterpointing plot lines in light of the American Dream, the theme of metamorphosis, the search for justice, and social change during the Ragtime/Progressive Era.
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"Doctorow, E(dgar) L(awrence)"

2001
Leksikografska natuknica o Edgaru Lawrenceu Doctorowu.
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"Narration and History in E. L. Doctorow"

1990
In this essay I argue that E. L. Doctorow’s Welcome to Hard Times, The Book of Daniel, and Ragtime, though very distinctive novels in terms of subject matter, style, technique and tone, are all characterized by an exploration of the relationship between history and fiction and by a foregrounding of their own status as constructions of language.
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Ragtime with Jazz Variations: A Novel by E. L. Doctorow Translated by Vasily Aksenov

Russkaya Rech, 2023
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Conversations with E. L. Doctorow

Choice Reviews Online, 2000
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The Faith of E. L. Doctorow

The Hudson Review, 2000
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Doctorow, E. L.

2017
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“Wonderland and Reality in E. L. Doctorow’s ‘World’s Fair’”

2010
'World’s Fair', a fiction that creates the "illusion of a memoir," unlocks a history at once personal and social, two dimensions of memory that are of necessity interrelated. The central episodes, two visits to the 1939 World’s Fair, one made by the young protagonist-narrator in the company of a school friend, and one by the protagonist and his family,
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