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- catalog abstract ""In Conversations with E.L. Doctorow Christopher D. Morris has gathered over twenty of the most revelatory interviews with the acclaimed author of Ragtime, World's Fair, Billy Bathgate, The Book of Daniel, and other novels, plays, and short stories. In his work the American dream and the values his characters try to live by turn to madness and ashes."--Jacket. "Within this collection Doctorow explores the themes of his work not only in the contexts of national and literary history but also in terms of disturbing trends in contemporary American culture. Talking about style, he discusses his experiments with shifting points of view and unreliable narrators as a part of the modernist heritage to which readers have become accustomed. But he stresses that these techniques are always subordinate to the telling of a good story and the creation of memorable characters."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11113854.
- catalog contributor b11113855.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""In Conversations with E.L. Doctorow Christopher D. Morris has gathered over twenty of the most revelatory interviews with the acclaimed author of Ragtime, World's Fair, Billy Bathgate, The Book of Daniel, and other novels, plays, and short stories. In his work the American dream and the values his characters try to live by turn to madness and ashes."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""Within this collection Doctorow explores the themes of his work not only in the contexts of national and literary history but also in terms of disturbing trends in contemporary American culture. Talking about style, he discusses his experiments with shifting points of view and unreliable narrators as a part of the modernist heritage to which readers have become accustomed. But he stresses that these techniques are always subordinate to the telling of a good story and the creation of memorable characters."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "PW interviews / John F. Baker -- Novelist syncopates history in Ragtime / Mel Gussow -- Mr. Ragtime / Jonathan Yardley -- Ragtime revisited / Nieman Reports -- History and the forms of fiction / Jared Lubarsky -- The writer as independent witness / Paul Levine -- The music in Doctorow's head / Catherine O'Neill -- E.L. Doctorow / Victor Navasky -- Politics and the mode of fiction / Richard Trenner -- A spirit of transgression / Larry McCaffery -- Author, author / James McInerney -- The myth maker / Bruce Weber -- A conversation with E.L. Doctorow / Alvin P. Sanoff -- A talk with E.L. Doctorow / Liesl Schillinger -- A multiplicity of witness / Herwig Friedl and Dieter Schulz -- An interview with E.L. Doctorow / Winifred Farrant Bevilacqua -- The audacious lure of evil / Alvin P. Sanoff -- E.L. Doctorow, novelist / Bill Moyers -- Fiction is a system of belief / Christopher D. Morris -- E.L. Doctorow / Michael Silverblatt -- An interview with E.L. Doctorow / Michael Wutz -- The city, The waterworks, and writing / Michelle Tokarczyk -- Finding a historical line / Richard Marranca -- E.L. Doctorow / Michael Silverblatt.".
- catalog extent "xxx, 228 p. :".
- catalog identifier "1578061431 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "157806144X (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Literary conversations series".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Jackson : University Press of Mississippi,".
- catalog subject "813/.54 21".
- catalog subject "Doctorow, E. L., 1931- Interviews.".
- catalog subject "Fiction Authorship.".
- catalog subject "Novelists, American 20th century Interviews.".
- catalog subject "PS3554.O3 Z465 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "PW interviews / John F. Baker -- Novelist syncopates history in Ragtime / Mel Gussow -- Mr. Ragtime / Jonathan Yardley -- Ragtime revisited / Nieman Reports -- History and the forms of fiction / Jared Lubarsky -- The writer as independent witness / Paul Levine -- The music in Doctorow's head / Catherine O'Neill -- E.L. Doctorow / Victor Navasky -- Politics and the mode of fiction / Richard Trenner -- A spirit of transgression / Larry McCaffery -- Author, author / James McInerney -- The myth maker / Bruce Weber -- A conversation with E.L. Doctorow / Alvin P. Sanoff -- A talk with E.L. Doctorow / Liesl Schillinger -- A multiplicity of witness / Herwig Friedl and Dieter Schulz -- An interview with E.L. Doctorow / Winifred Farrant Bevilacqua -- The audacious lure of evil / Alvin P. Sanoff -- E.L. Doctorow, novelist / Bill Moyers -- Fiction is a system of belief / Christopher D. Morris -- E.L. Doctorow / Michael Silverblatt -- An interview with E.L. Doctorow / Michael Wutz -- The city, The waterworks, and writing / Michelle Tokarczyk -- Finding a historical line / Richard Marranca -- E.L. Doctorow / Michael Silverblatt.".
- catalog title "Conversations with E.L. Doctorow / edited by Christopher D. Morris.".
- catalog type "Interviews. fast".
- catalog type "text".