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.…mehr
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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 José), 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 Scientia Professor in English and Film Studies at UNSW Australia. He is the author of Literature and Race in Los Angeles (2001), Multimedia Modernism (2009), and the forthcoming Faulkner's Media Romance. He has co-edited a number of collections, including Rancière and Literature (2016), Faulkner in the Media Ecology (2015), and Modernism and Masculinity (2014), and co-edits the journal Affirmations: of the modern.
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Acknowledgements Notes 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, Difference 4. Submerged Politics and the Artist, Nicholas Murgatroyd 5. Redeeming the National Ideal: Revisiting E. L. Doctorow's The Book of Daniel and Its Political Implications, Jieun Kwon 6. "A Rearrangement of Molecules": On Doctorow's Perpetual Motion Machines, Julian Murphet 7. Cocks, Corsets, Clocks: E. L. Doctorow and the Tunnel of Love, Alexander Howard III Narrative, Media, and Cognition-The Case of City of God 8. Literary Neutrinos and the Hot Dark Matters of Doctorow's City of God, Nathan Frank 9. City of God / City of Bits: Signs, Signals, Noise, Michael Wutz IV Tributes 10. E. L. Doctorow, Inhabiting History, Jennifer Egan 11. The Polyphonic Past, Don DeLillo 12. A Half Century of Friendship and Literary Greatness, Victor Navasky Index
Acknowledgements Notes 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, Difference 4. Submerged Politics and the Artist, Nicholas Murgatroyd 5. Redeeming the National Ideal: Revisiting E. L. Doctorow's The Book of Daniel and Its Political Implications, Jieun Kwon 6. "A Rearrangement of Molecules": On Doctorow's Perpetual Motion Machines, Julian Murphet 7. Cocks, Corsets, Clocks: E. L. Doctorow and the Tunnel of Love, Alexander Howard III Narrative, Media, and Cognition-The Case of City of God 8. Literary Neutrinos and the Hot Dark Matters of Doctorow's City of God, Nathan Frank 9. City of God / City of Bits: Signs, Signals, Noise, Michael Wutz IV Tributes 10. E. L. Doctorow, Inhabiting History, Jennifer Egan 11. The Polyphonic Past, Don DeLillo 12. A Half Century of Friendship and Literary Greatness, Victor Navasky Index
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