Full Description
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.
Contents
AcknowledgementsNotes on Contributors
Introduction: E. L. Doctorow Reconsidered, Michael Wutz and Julian Murphet
I 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
II Politics, Allegory, Difference4. Submerged Politics and the Artist, Nicholas Murgatroyd5. Redeeming the National Ideal: Revisiting E. L. Doctorow's The Book of Daniel and Its Political Implications, Jieun Kwon6. "A Rearrangement of Molecules": On Doctorow's Perpetual Motion Machines, Julian Murphet7. Cocks, Corsets, Clocks: E. L. Doctorow and the Tunnel of Love, Alexander Howard
III Narrative, Media, and Cognition—The Case of City of God8. Literary Neutrinos and the Hot Dark Matters of Doctorow's City of God, Nathan Frank9. City of God / City of Bits: Signs, Signals, Noise, Michael Wutz
IV Tributes 10. E. L. Doctorow, Inhabiting History, Jennifer Egan11. The Polyphonic Past, Don DeLillo12. A Half Century of Friendship and Literary Greatness, Victor Navasky
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