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E.L. Doctorow: A Reconsideration Paperback - 2021

by Michael Wutz (Editor); Julian Murphet (Editor)


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Showcases the life-work of one of America's greatest contemporary novelists

  • Essays written by an international set of scholars
  • Contributions by prominent fiction writers and friends of Doctorow: Don DeLillo, Victor Navasky, and Jennifer Egan
  • Pays particular attention to the extraordinary novels of Doctorow in the last 20 years, including The Waterworks, City of God, and a set of his recent preoccupations: corporate and religious power, cognitive science, and media culture

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.

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Showcases the life-work of one of America's greatest contemporary novelists 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. Michael Wutz is Rodney H. Brady Presidential Distinguished Professor at Weber State University. Julian Murphet is Scientia Professor in English and Film Studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

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  • Title E.L. Doctorow: A Reconsideration
  • Author Michael Wutz (Editor); Julian Murphet (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Edinburgh University Press
  • Date 2021-08-31
  • ISBN 9781474458849 / 147445884X
  • Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.53 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 1.35 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Doctorow, E. L. - Criticism and
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.54

About the author

Michael Wutz is Rodney H Brady Presidential Distinguished Professor at Weber State University. His publications include: Conversations with W. S. Merwin, coedited with Hal Crimmel (Weber State University), Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2015; reissued in paperback 2018.Enduring Words--Literary Narrative in Changing Media Ecology, Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2009, pp. 279 "Young Swiss Writers," a special double issue of the international, bilingual magazine Dimension2 co-edited and -introduced with Romey Sabalius (Cal State, San Jos), vol. 8 (2/3), pp. 177-455, February 2007. "Media, Materiality, Memory: Aspects of Intermediality," a special issue of Configurations, the journal of the Society for Literature & Science, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, vol. 10, no.1 (Winter 2002): pp. 201, coedited with Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, Univ. of British Columbia.

Julian Murphet is Jury Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Adelaide. He is the author, previously, of Literature and Race in Los Angeles (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Multimedia Modernism (Cambridge University Press, 2009), Faulkner's Media Romance (Oxford University Press, 2017) and Todd Solondz (Northern Illinois University Press, 2019), and of the forthcoming Modern Character: 1888-1905 (Oxford University Press, 2023) and Twentieth-Century Prison Writing: A Literary Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2023).
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