E.L. Doctorow’s fictional autobiography: <i>World’s Fair </i> (1985) as a carnivalesque <i>Bildungsroman</i>

In World’s Fair (1985) E.L. (Edgar Lawrence) Doctorow (1931–) artistically transforms autobiographical and historical facts and memories of the actual world of his childhood into a Bildungsroman. Doctorow was in his fifties when he wrote this novel, which is widely regarded as more autobiographic t...

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Main Authors: Philip van der Merwe, Ian Bekker
Format: Article
Language:Afrikaans
Published: AOSIS 2015-06-01
Series:Literator
Online Access:https://literator.org.za/index.php/literator/article/view/1181