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Doctorow, E. L. - (Edgar Laurence Doctorow)dŏkˈtərōˌ, 1931–, American novelist, b. New York City. Doctorow is known for his skillful blending of fiction and fact into reconstructions of eras in American history. His first work was a novel of the 19th-century West, Welcome to Hard Times (1960). He won wide recognition for The Book of Daniel (1971), which

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E. L. Doctorow's Skeptical Commitment » Read Now
by Michelle M. Tokarczyk. 194 pgs.

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A Citizen Reads the Constitution, in The Nation » Read Now
by E. L. Doctorow. 8 pgs.

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The Modern American Novel of Violence ("E. L. Doctorow's Billy Bathgate" begins on p. 116) » Read Now
by Patrick W. Shaw. 220 pgs.

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"An addendum to W. M. Frohock's 'The Novel of Violence in America, 1920-1950' (1950), Shaw's volume further defines violence and provides lengthy essays on a novel by each of eight authors not covered by Frohock—Porter, Capote. Vonnegut, Doctorow, McCarthy, Morrison, Selby, and Ellis. . . ...
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"An addendum to W. M. Frohock's 'The Novel of Violence in America, 1920-1950' (1950), Shaw's volume further defines violence and provides lengthy essays on a novel by each of eight authors not covered by Frohock—Porter, Capote. Vonnegut, Doctorow, McCarthy, Morrison, Selby, and Ellis. . . . Students and scholars dealing with any of the writers Shaw covers will appreciate his detailed essays on specific novels. Recommended for libraries supporting coursework in the modern novel at the upper-division undergraduate level and above."—Choice
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Problematized Narratives: History as Fiction in E. L. Doctorow's Billy Bathgate, in Critique » Read Now
by Matthew A. Henry. 9 pgs.

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...Narratives: History as Fiction in E. L. Doctorows Billy Bathgate MATTHEW A. HENRY E. L. Doctorow has made a career out of historical...False Documents", E. L. Doctorow...
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The Young Gangster as Mythic American Hero: E. L. Doctorow's Billy Bathgate, in MELUS » Read Now
by Minako Baba. 14 pgs.

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Narrating Postmodern Time and Space ("Doctorow: Recuperating Parallel Images of the Past") » Read Now
by Joseph Francese. 203 pgs.

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The Primal Scene in the Public Domain: E. L. Doctorow's The Book of Daniel, in Studies in the Novel » Read Now
by Naomi Morgenstern. 21 pgs.

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Reconstructing the Family in Contemporary American Fiction (Chap. 6 "America as Family: E. L. Doctorow's Ragtime") » Read Now
by Horst S. Daemmrich. 168 pgs.

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Why Not Say What Happened? E. L. Doctorow's Lives of the Poets, in Critique » Read Now
by Stephen Matterson. 13 pgs.

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...Why Not Say What Happened? E. L. Doctorows Lives of the Poets STEPHEN...Lives of the Poets , E. L. Doctorow seventh work, first published...OF DUBLIN WORKS CITED Doctorow...
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Through a Glass Clearly: Vision as Structure in E. L. Doctorow's "Willi," in Studies in Short Fiction » Read Now
by Ann V. Miller. 6 pgs.

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Women and Death: Linkages in Western Thought and Literature ("E. L. Doctorow" begins on p. 164) » Read Now
by Beth Ann Bassein. 246 pgs.

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...1972. Random House, Inc., for excerpts from E. L. Doctorow Ragtime , Copyright 1975 by Random House, Inc...D. H. Lawrence, Doris Lessing, Margaret Drabble, E. L. Doctorow...