E. L. Doctorow's Skeptical Commitment - Couverture souple

Tokarczyk, Michelle M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0820444707 ISBN 13 : 9780820444703

Editeur : Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2000

Synopsis

This book gives a political reading of E. L. Doctorow's fiction. For Doctorow, there was a tension between the ideals of his socially aware family and those of the new critics under whom he studied as an undergraduate. This tension, making him skeptical about the possibilities of political involvement, has been beneficial because it has enabled Doctorow to avoid the excesses of both polemical writing and formalism. Through a stance Tokarczyk terms «skeptical commitment» he has written political fiction of high literary quality. In part, he has done so by adapting genres such as the western and the romance. Furthermore, Doctorow has used experimental techniques to express political and historical themes, thereby writing a kind of postmodern fiction that still maintains the possibility of establishing some truths, while acknowledging indeterminacy.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

The Author: Michelle M. Tokarczyk is Associate Professor of English at Goucher College. She received her Ph.D. in English from the State University of New York, Stony Brook. In addition to several articles and reviews in contemporary literary and cultural studies, she has written E. L. Doctorow: An Annotated Bibliography and co-edited Working-Class Women in the Academy Laborers in the Knowledge Factory.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0820444707
• ISBN 13: 9780820444703
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 194
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• Personne responsable: non disponible