Bibliography
Course Hero. "Ragtime Study Guide." Course Hero. 13 Mar. 2017. Web. 25 June 2022. <https://www.coursehero.com/lit/Ragtime/>.
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Course Hero. (2017, March 13). Ragtime Study Guide. In Course Hero. Retrieved June 25, 2022, from https://www.coursehero.com/lit/Ragtime/
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Course Hero. "Ragtime Study Guide." March 13, 2017. Accessed June 25, 2022. https://www.coursehero.com/lit/Ragtime/.
Footnote
Course Hero, "Ragtime Study Guide," March 13, 2017, accessed June 25, 2022, https://www.coursehero.com/lit/Ragtime/.
E. L. Doctorow
1975
Novel
Drama
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.
Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow is narrated in the past tense, 50 years after the novel's events.
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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