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Course Hero. "Ragtime Study Guide." Course Hero. 13 Mar. 2017. Web. 28 July 2017. <https://www.coursehero.com/lit/Ragtime/>.
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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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