E. L. Doctorow | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 3 pages of analysis & critique of E. L. Doctorow.
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E. L. Doctorow | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 3 pages of analysis & critique of E. L. Doctorow.
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[Drinks Before Dinner] originated not in an idea or a character or a story but in a sense of heightened language, a way of talking. It was not until I had the sound of it in my ear that I thought about saying something. The language preceded the intention. It's possible that the voice the writer discovers may only be the hallucination of his own force of will; nevertheless, the process of making something up is best experienced as fortuitous, unplanned, exploratory. You write to find out what it is you're writing….

I didn't analyze this language but merely set out to see if I could do it. It is a frankly rhetorical mode that loves repetition, the rhythm of repetition, and at its best finds the unit of sense not in the clause or the sentence but in the discursion. I have since detected a similar sound...

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