E.L. Doctorow: A Reconsideration

ISBN-13: 9781474458849 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 256 str.

MICHAEL WUTZ

Opis

This 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.

Spis treści

I. Introduction: E. L. Doctorow Reconsidered, Michael Wutz and Julian Murphet; II. Generic Border Crossings; 1. ‘Doctorow and the Halbbildungsroman’,Tamlyn Avery; 2. ‘‘The Dark Horrors of Consciousness’: Doctorow and the Gothic’, Stephen Arch; 3. ‘E. L. Doctorow as Short Story Writer’, Mark Azzopardi; III. Politics, Allegory, Difference; 4. ‘Submerged Politics and the Artist’, Nicholas Murgatroyd; 5. ‘Redeeming the National Ideal: Revisiting E. L. Doctorow’s The Book of Daniel and Its Political Implications’, Jieun Kwon; 6. ‘‘A Rearrangement of Molecules’: On Doctorow’s Perpetual Motion Machines’, Julian Murphet; 7. ‘Cocks, Corsets, Clocks: E. L. Doctorow and the Tunnel of Love’, Alexander Howard; IV. Narrative, Media, and Cognition—The Case of City of God; 8. ‘Literary Neutrinos and the Hot Dark Matters of Doctorow’s City of God’, Nathan Frank; 9. ‘City of God / City of Bits: Signs, Signals, Noise’, Michael Wutz; V. Tributes; 10. ‘E. L. Doctorow, Inhabiting History’, Jennifer Egan 11. ‘The Polyphonic Past’, Don DeLillo; 12. ‘A Half Century of Friendship and Literary Greatness’, Victor Navasky; Index.