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" E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime / "
edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
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BL
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1045918
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b800288
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| Title & Author
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E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime /\ edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
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| Publication Statement
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Philadelphia :: Chelsea House Publishers,, 2004.
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Bloom's guides
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105 pages ;; 22 cm.
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0791078809
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: 9780791078808
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 92-96) and index.
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| Contents
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Biographical sketch -- The story behind the story -- List of characters -- Summary and analysis -- Critical views. Peter F. Neumeyer on E.L. Doctorow, Kleist, and the ascendancy of things ; Barbara Foley on the forms of historical consciousness in modern fiction ; Frederick R. Karl on Ragtime's variations ; Geoffrey Galt Harpham on E.L. Doctorow and the moral fiction of history ; Marshall Bruce Gentry on Ragtime as auto biography ; Cushing Strout on Twain, Doctorow, and the anachronistic adventures of the arms mechanic and the jazz pianist ; John G. Parks on historical compositions ; Fredric Jameson on the cultural logic of late capitalism ; Christopher D. Morris on illusions of demystification ; Berndt Ostendorf on the musical world.
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An account of the interrelated lives of the families of a New Rochelle manufacturer, an immigrant socialist, and a Harlem musician and their involvements with period notables is set against the backdrop of early twentieth-century American history.
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Doctorow, E. L.,1931-2015., Ragtime.
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Doctorow, Edgar L.
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Literature.
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Ragtime (Doctorow, E.L.)
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Ragtime.
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New York (State), In literature.
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New York (State)
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.54
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PS3554.O3R34 2004
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Bloom, Harold.
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Ragtime
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