| Description |
xiii, 239 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Critical essays on American literature
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Reviews. Novel of Old West [review of Welcome to hard times] / S. E. B. -- Realistic western [review of Welcome to hard times] / Oscar Lewis -- [Review of Welcome to hard times] / John T. Osborne -- Menace [review of Big as life] / Gwendolyn Brooks -- [Review of Big as life] / Anonymous -- [Review of Big as life] / Malcolm M. Ferguson -- Lion's den [Review of The book of Daniel] / Peter Prescott -- Wrestling society for a soul [review of The book of Daniel] / Stanley Kauffmann -- Music of time [review of Ragtime] / R. Z. Sheppard -- Mingle with the mighty [review of Ragtime] / Russell Davies -- Political romance [review of Ragtime] / Hilton Kramer -- [Review of Drinks before dinner : a play] / L. F. Kornblum -- [Review of Drinks before dinner : a play] / Anonymous -- [Review of Drinks before dinner : a play] / Martin McNamee -- Breaking the rules [review of Loon Lake] / Alan Brownjohn -- American dream in fragments [review of Loon Lake / Saul Maloff -- Singing the same old songs [review of Loon Lake] / Pearl K. Bell -- Doctorow's "hit' is a miss [review of Loon Lake] / Anthony Burgess -- New Jersey Joe [review of Loon Lake] / Nicholas Shrimpton -- |
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[Review of Lives of the poets : six stories and a novella] / C. G. Storms -- Creative muse [review Lives of the poets : six stories and a novella] / Peter S. Prescott -- [Review of World's fair] / Janet Wiehe -- Fiction [review of World's fair] -- Looking back on the world of tomorrow [review of World's fair / David Leavitt -- Pyrography [review of World's fair] / Edmund White -- Time-encapsulating [review of World's fair] -- Review of Billy Bathgate] / Barbara Hoffert -- Huck in the Bronx [review of Billy Bathgate] / Alfred Kazin -- Bye bye Billy [review of Billy Bathgate] / John Leonard -- Juggler's code [review of Billy Bathgate] / Garry Wills -- Books in brief [review of Selected essays] / Donald Lyons -- [Review of Selected essays] / Alice Joyce -- [Review of Selected essays] / Janice Braun -- [Review of The waterworks] / Donna Seaman -- City of the living dead [review of The waterworks / Paul Gray -- Gothic tale of horror in old New York [review of The waterworks] / Malcolm Jones -- Of Melville, Poe and Doctorow [review of The waterworks] / Ted Solotaroff -- Cabinet of Dr. Sartorius [review of The waterworks] / Luc Sante -- |
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Articles. Doctorow's Hard times : a sermon on the failure of faith / Marilyn Arnold -- Burden of the past : Doctorow's The book of Daniel / Eugenie L. Hamner -- Ragtime and the movies / Angela Hague -- E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime and the dialectics of change / Mark Busby -- Radical Jewish humanism : the vision of E.L. Doctorow / John Clayton -- Writing as witnessing : the many voices of E.L. Doctorow / Susan Brienza -- Young gangster as mythic American hero? E.L. Doctorow's Billy Bathgate / Minako Baba -- Necropolis News [Essay-review of The waterworks and Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution : selected essays, 1977-1992 / Andrew Delbanco. |
| Subject |
Doctorow, E. L., 1931-2015 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Historical fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Siegel, Ben, 1925-2010.
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| ISBN |
0783800460 (alk. paper) |
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