| Автор | Spencer, Luke |
| Дата выпуска | 1996 |
| dc.description | Ragtime (1985 [1975]) is contextualised among Doctorow's other 1970s novels as an attempt to challenge received ideas about his country's past. The novel's formal strategy for expressing Doctorow's radical critique of modem American experience- what he calls 'a poetics of engagement' - is examined through close attention to the formal and linguistic handling of speech. Three key passages of dialogue are quoted at length and analysed for what they reveal of the social - and, hence, ideological- embeddedness of utterances and those who speak them. The interdependence of private and public discourse is related to issues of reproduction, repetition and inescapability which the novel also addresses. Finally, it is argued that Doctorow's unflinching engagement with negative socio-linguistic forces culminates in a courageous admission of political paralysis. |
| Издатель | Sage Publications |
| Тема | discourse |
| Тема | Doctorow |
| Тема | E.L. |
| Тема | engagement |
| Тема | poetics |
| Тема | politics |
| Тема | radicalism |
| Тема | Ragtime. |
| Название | A poetics of engagement in E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime |
| Тип | Other |
| DOI | 10.1177/096394709600500103 |
| Print ISSN | 0963-9470 |
| Журнал | Language and Literature |
| Том | 5 |
| Первая страница | 19 |
| Последняя страница | 30 |
| Аффилиация | Spencer, Luke, University of Leeds, UK |
| Выпуск | 1 |
| Библиографическая ссылка | Davis, L.J. (1987) Resisting Novels: Ideology and Fiction Methuen, London |
| Библиографическая ссылка | Doctorow, E.L. (1979) Drinks Before Dinner, Random House, New York |
| Библиографическая ссылка | Doctorow, E.L. (1982 [1971]) The Book of Daniel, Pan/Picador , London |
| Библиографическая ссылка | Doctorow, E.L. (1985 [ 1975]) Ragtime, Pan/Picador , London |
| Библиографическая ссылка | Doctorow, E.L. (1985 [1979]) Loon Lake, Pan/Picador , London |
| Библиографическая ссылка | Doctorow, E.L. (1986 [ 1985]) World's Fair, Michael Joseph, London |
| Библиографическая ссылка | Doctorow, E.L. (1989 [1989]) Billy Bathgate Macmillan, London |
| Библиографическая ссылка | Doctorow, E.L. (1994 [1994]) The Waterworks Macmillan, London |
| Библиографическая ссылка | DeLillo, D.Interview, Omnibus, BBC 1, 25 September 1991 |
| Библиографическая ссылка | Levine, P. (1985) E.L. Doctorow, Methuen, London |
| Библиографическая ссылка | Short, M. (1996) Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose , Longman, London |
| Библиографическая ссылка | Trenner, R. (ed.) (1983) E.L. Doctorow: Essays and Conversations, Ontario Review Press |
