Ragtime
by E. L. Doctorow
Although E. L. Doctorow sets his novel in an era that preceded his own by some seventy- five years, many of the issues addressed in Ragtime remain similar to those faced b...
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Biography EssayOne of the most celebrated and controversial novelists of the past two decades, E. L. Doctorow has an uncanny ability to reach both the general audience (The Book of Daniel, Welcome to ...
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E.L. Doctorow (born 1931) is widely regarded as one of America's pre-eminent novelists of the 20th Century. His work is philosophically probing, employing an adventurous prose style, and the use of hi...
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"It was juggling that had got me where I was . . . . I practiced my juggling. I juggled anything, Spaldeens, stones, oranges, empty green Coca-Cola bottles, I juggled rolls we stole hot from the bins ...
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Edgar Laurence Doctorow was born in New York on 6 January 1931. He attended the Bronx High School of Science and later studied at Kenyon College, where he received his B.A. in 1952. Like the hero of T...
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One of the most celebrated and controversial novelists of the past two decades, E. L. Doctorow has an uncanny ability to reach both the general audience (The Book of Daniel , Welcome to Hard Times, a...
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[This entry was updated by Douglas Fowler (Florida State University) from his entry in DLB 173: American Novelists Since World War II, Fifth Series.]E. L. Doctorow's narrative art is a distinctive fus...
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Critical Essay by Walter L. Knorr
[An] unanticipated glow of recognition comes over the [critic of Heinrich von Kleist, a German dramatist and short story writer,] who, reading leisurely as directed ...
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The Progressive Era, a time of transition and technological advancement, involves the separation of America by a white upper class society and a lower class of immigrants. The American Dream lingers i...
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Maya Angelou and E. L. Doctorow both write about nomads in America, finding a place which feels like home. Angelou speaks about herself, mainly her childhood. She and her brother set out nation-wide, ...
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Across the world during the early 1900's, many people packed up their belongings and traveled to the United States in hope of finding a new life. The life that these people expected to find was that ...
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The story of the Holy Grail draws many to the table of quests. From Sir Lancalot to the epic quest of Monty Python, different peoples have set off on a quest to find a mythological cup that will someh...
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Teaching Ragtime
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For years, Julian Barnes has been not quite Nabokov or W.G. Sebald. Not quite there yet? Or not quite Julian Barnes? He’s been funny, chilled, sparkish, a dandyish surveyor of fiction and its...
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For years, Julian Barnes has been not quite Nabokov or W.G. Sebald. Not quite there yet? Or not quite Julian Barnes? He’s been funny, chilled, sparkish, a dandyish surveyor of fiction and its...
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It was a day that had been a long time coming, and for the community leaders who gathered Friday to dedicate a memorial at the once-forgotten grave site of thousands of African slaves, it was also ...
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When the dozy, dreamy singer-songwriter Cat Power walked onstage at last week’s “The Music of Bob Dylan” benefit, she was slated to sing “Moonshiner,” a desperate folk...
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When the dozy, dreamy singer-songwriter Cat Power walked onstage at last week’s “The Music of Bob Dylan” benefit, she was slated to sing “Moonshiner,” a desperate folk...
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These days, it’s not often that you hear music people waxing poetic about the business. But the love was flowing on Thursday, June 7, at the Marriott Marquis, where the Songwriters Hall of Fa...
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On a flight to Ireland last year, Stephanie J. Block checked out what her traveling companion was wearing and smiled.Block, cast as the wild, sword-wielding 16-century Irish heroine of Broadway's "...
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Carey BellCHICAGO (AP) _ Carey Bell, a blues harmonica player who performed with both Muddy Waters' and Willie Dixon's bands, has died. He was 70.Bell died Sunday of heart failure at Kindred Hospit...
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The Time Jumpers have never had a hit record, perform in the same small club where they started nine years ago and play songs that are 60 years old.And yet they're so hip the stars come out to hear...
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"'Hey Jude,'" someone in the audience yells out.Gabriela Montero sits at the piano, taps out the bare melody line, pauses and stares at the ceiling through her flowing blond hair and then plays the...
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Ragtime
Edgar Laurence Doctorow
E. L. Doctorow
E(dgar) L(aurence) Doctorow
Critical Essay by Walter L. Knorr
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