Reporting the Universe
by Doctorow, E. L.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-09-30
Publisher(s): Harvard Univ Pr
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Summary
"The writer," according to Emerson, "believes all that can be thought can be written...In his eyes a man is the faculty of reporting, and the universe is the possibility of being reported." And what writer worth his name, E. L. Doctorow asks, will not seriously, however furtively, take on the universe? Human consciousness, personal history, American literature, religion, and politics--these are the far-flung coordinates of the universe that Doctorow reports here, a universe that uniquely and brilliantly reflects our contemporary scene.
Author Biography
E. L. Doctorow holds the Glucksman Chair in American and English Letters at New York University
Table of Contents
| Emerson | 1 | (8) | |
| Childhood of a Writer | 9 | (30) | |
| Kenyon | 39 | (12) | |
| Texts That Are Sacred, Texts That Are Not | 51 | (6) | |
| First Novel | 57 | (6) | |
| Deism | 63 | (12) | |
| The Little Bang | 75 | (8) | |
| Why We Are Infidels | 83 | (6) | |
| The Politics of God | 89 | (10) | |
| The Civil Religion | 99 | (4) | |
| Canto XXV | 103 | (4) | |
| Apprehending Reality | 107 | (4) | |
| Paradise Lost | 111 | (8) | |
| Literature as Religion | 119 | (6) | |
| Acknowledgments | 125 |
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