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At a Glance: Full title Ragtime. Author Edgar Lawrence Doctorow. Type of work Novel. Genre Historical fiction; national bildungsroman. Language English. Time and place written United States, 1970s. Date of first publication 1975. Publisher Random House.
What is Ragtime? E.L. Doctorow's (1931-2015) famous novel celebrated this syncopated music. The prolific and widely acclaimed American writer E. L. Doctorow died July 21, 2015 of complications from lung cancer at the age of 84.
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- The Difficulty of Accepting Change
- The Struggle For Stability and Meaning
- The Impact of Technological Development on Culture
- Imprisonment and False Liberation
E.L. Doctorow addresses several major societal changes in turn-of-the-century America in his novel Ragtime.He conveys the effects of these changes through the reactions of the characters. Some characters welcome and accept change, while other reject and struggle with it. These differing reactions become one of the ways in which Doctorow develops hi...
Throughout the novel, the characters attempt to derive meaning from their experiences and from the way in which the world challenges and changes them. Doctorow focuses on the process by which the characters attempt to reconcile their own desires for stability with their knowledge that life's events often seem to possess no reason or direction. For ...
The Progressive Era (1900–1917) during which this novel is set was a time marked by rapid technological developments and industrialization. These years also brought a heavy influx of immigrants as well as an increasingly urban American landscape. Technological advancements enabled increased efficiency and mass production. However, Doctorow clearly ...
Doctorow incorporates the tension between imprisonment and liberation into the struggles of several of his characters. Imprisonment manifests itself in many different ways in the novel: physical, emotional, philosophical, political, and economic. For example, Harry Houdini, a famous escape artist, astounds crowds with his ability to escape from any...
Washington is a well-educated and famous orator and Black civil rights leader. He believes friendship and cooperation is essential to the success of Black people in America. Next section Mother. A list of all the characters in Ragtime. Ragtime characters include: Mother, Father, Mother's Younger Brother, Coalhouse Walker, Tateh.
Ragtime is a narrative tour de force, and its bold combination of fictional and historical figures has stimulated a lively debate about the truth of art. "If you ask me whether some things in the ...
Ragtime is a daring combination of fiction and history. Doctorow holds a mirror up to a decade of history in order to reflect the social and political concerns of America just prior to World War I.
Oct 8, 2020 · Maple Leaf marvel. ‘Ragtime’s immediate roots were in the minstrel music and cakewalk tunes that depicted the simple joys of contented slaves, a fiction that white America clung to long after the Civil War,’ writes Ray Argyle in Scott Joplin and the Age of Ragtime.
