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Overview
Author
E. L. Doctorow
Year Published
1975
Type
Novel
Genre
Drama
Perspective and Narrator
Ragtime is narrated by a third-person narrator who is possibly the character The Little Boy as an adult. The narration is primarily limited but occasionally switches to omniscient.
Tense
Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow is narrated in the past tense, 50 years after the novel's events.
About the Title
Ragtime music is both a subplot in the novel and, in its juxtaposition of repetitive rhythmic chords played by the left hand and syncopated notes played by the right hand, a metaphor for Doctorow's treatment of history in the novel. In Doctorow's hands, history is repetitive yet has the power to surprise.
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