《都市 漫遊 成長：E·L·多克托羅小說中的“小小都市漫遊者”研究（英文版）》：
In E. L. Doctorow, Harter and Thompson combines the life and art of Doctorow and comments on his novels published before 1985, excluding all those after World's Fair. Though this study is of a book length, there seems to be no central argument, with only a critical focus on each of the novels mentioned.
John Parks' study of Doctorow continues this combination of biographic
truth and Doctorow's literary creation, but this time, with a unified theme.In his book E. L. Doctorow, Parks mainly argues that Doctorow's prose is a political challenge to the American myth and history, in which Doctorow,with polyphonic and heteroglossic narratives, shows his willingness to counter the tendency of a culture which tends to monopolize the composition of truth.
Christopher Morris, based on the study of the previous three books,proposes his idea, that is, Doctorow's works are models of misrepresentation, in the sense that Doctorow purposefully deviates from historical facts and composes a history from his own perspective. Besides,Morris, by citing de Man, Derrida, and Miller, points out that the interpretation on Doctorow's works is mostly hermeneutic, which might be s'foredoomed to failure" ( Parks 1991: 22). He admits that his own interpretation of Doctorow's works might also be a "misrepresentation" of Doctorow.
John Williams takes the title of Doctorow's essay "False Documents" as the title of his book Fiction as False Document: The Reception of E. L. Doctorow in the Postmodern Age . He concentrates on the postmodern writing techniques of Doctorow, and surveys the reception of his works in the era dominated by post-structuralism and deconstruction. Williams' central theme is: "postmodernism and the politics attached to it have created a field of study that exerts considerable influence on what gets written (not to mention what gets published)" (Williams 1996:2) .
While the previous five book length studies mainly focus on the contradiction between Doctorow's political commitment and his commitment to writing, Douglass Fowler, in Un.derstanding E. L. Doctorow, pays his due attention to Doctorow's commitment to family and to the city he lives in. In this critical as well as introductory work on Doctorow, Fowler concentrates on the autobiographical essence in Doctorow's novels, which are said by Fowler to be self-creating and patrimony-searching, with his gothic imagination of the Bronx and New York as a whole, Though Fowler's thoughts and comments are insightful, the book itself, as a series of guides or companions for students and nonacademic readers, cannot give a detailed study of each of the novels due to the limit of length, and thus leaves much space for further study.
The six book length studies of Doctorow in the 20th century started a systematic and specialized field of the study of the specific contemporary author - E. L. Doctorow. Ever since the six books were published, Doctorow studies have taken on a new look and have come to a new phase in the new millennium, with the characteristics of being varied, inter-disciplinary and comprehensive. In E. L. Doctorow's Skeptical Commitment published in 2000, at the threshold of the new millennium, Michelle Tokarczyk, synthesizing her published critical essays on Doctorow's works, the transcripts of her interview with Doctorow and some of her new thoughts,argues that Doctorow's works are allegories of his own society and city; they are autobiographical in the sense that they reveal how a New York author of Jewish tradition comes to be what he is now.
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