The purpose of the present paper is to explore Edgar Lawrence Doctorow’s novel Ragtime(1975)as a masterful adaptation of musical form in fiction.It demonstrates the ways in which the use of musical devices of Ragtime...
The novel Ragtime, written by the contemporary American writer Edgar Lawrence Doctorow, imaginatively reconstructs the urban space in the Progressive Era. In the period of social transformation and change, all kinds o...
"More than a book, it's an experience--startling, viscerally satisfying, and as joyous as a happy love affair--Cosmopolitan" (Doctorow, 19751). E.L. Doctorow's masterpiece Ragtime has intrigued quite a great dea...