Selected Writings of E. L. Doctorow

General Introduction: E. L. Doctorow - A Life of & in Letters

• Bruce Weber, NYT Obituary and NYT Author Page
• Adam Kelly, E. L. Doctorow's Postmodernist Style, LARB, Oct 2015 (perhaps to be repositioned)
  *** Please come prepared to have read the first third of Ragtime. Thank you ***

Ragtime- The Cliches are Having a Ball

• Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991)
  Here is a summary or Jameson's major argument in lieu of the (full) essay
• Angela Hague, "Ragtime and the Movies" (Critical Essays)
• Focus Questions - Ragtime
   
• E. L. Doctorow, Ragtime (1976) _________________________________
  • (sign-up for student presentation/seminar facilitation, perhaps in teams of two)

Gothic Gotham, or, Batman in the Geriatric Ward

The Waterworks

• Brien Diemert,E. L. Doctorow's Gnostic Detective Story, TSLL, 45, 3, 2003: 352-374
• Michael Wutz, The Waterworks: Knowledge and Cognition in the Early Age of Data Storage
• The Ashcan School
• Focus Questions - The Waterworks
   
• Waterworks I _____________________________________      Waterworks II _______________________________________
  
  Of Topical Interest:
  • Keith Richards' (alleged) oil change
  • Northrop Frye on Romance versus the Novel
  • Ron Soodalter,  "The Union's 'Shoddy' Aristocracy"
  • Sarah Weicksel, Six Questions with a Civil War Material Culture scholar (The Smithsonian)

City of God / City of Bits: Signs, Signals, Networks

City of God (2000)

• A. O. Scott, A Thinking Man's Miracle, NYT
• Walter Kirn, Heaven Can Wait, NYTM
• Michael Wutz, On the Craft of Fiction - E. L. Doctorow at 80, Weber 29, 1: 2-15.
• Teachers' Guide to City of God
• Discussion Questions, City of God
• Option: Jaquira Diaz Reading, Thus, 5 Oct, SUB #312, 6 PM
• 
  City of God I ______________________________________     City of God II ______________________________________

Utah on the Brain - Narrative, Cognitive Science, and the Late Age of the Humanities

Andrew's Brain

• Andrew's Brain Focus Questions
• Ron Rosenbaum, The End of Everything: E. L. Doctorow's Last Warning, LARB
• E. L. Doctorow,2013 Gold Medal - National Book Awards: Internet, Brain, Surveillance
• E. L. Doctorow, All the Time in the World (excerpt)
• Marco Roth, Rise of the Neuronovel, n+1, Sept 2009; Neuronovel II; Jonah Lehrer, Frontal Cortex
• Useful Background: Cognitive Science I, Cognitive Science II, (Go Cognitive)
• V.S. Ramachandran, 3 Clues to Understanding your Brain(Ted Talk)
• Celebration of E. L. Doctorow with Ta-Nehisi Coates and Jennifer Egan, 92Y, 17 Jan 2017
   
• Andrew I _______________________________________      Andrew II _______________________________________
  
  Of Topical Interest
  • ELD  on Andrew's Brain