Beschreibung:
In this study, first published in 1985, Paul Levine follows E. L. Doctorow's progress as a novelist and traces the development of themes that recur in his work including the relationships between history and imagination, high and popular culture, and political content and radical style.
General Editors' Preface. Preface and Acknowledgements. A Note on the Texts. 1. Politics and Imagination 2. Fiction and Formulas 3. Fiction and Radicalism 4. Fiction and History 5. Fiction and the American Dream 6. Lives of Poets. Appendix: Doctorow on Film. Notes. Bibliography.