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Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Introduction of E·L·Doctorow and Ragtime
1.1 E·L· Doctorow's Life and Literary Career
1.2 Introduction of Ragtime
1.3The Research on Doctorow and His Novels in China and Abroad
Chapter 2 Development of New Historicism
2.1 The Rise of New Historicism
2.2 The Basic Theories of New Historicism
Chapter 3 The Historicity of Doctorow's Text
3.1 Louis A. Montrose's The Historicity of Texts
3.2 Ragtime--Doctorow's New Historical Text
3.2.1 Doctorow-"A Radical Jewish Humanist"
3.2.2 The Postmodern Fictional Texts in Ragtime-A “Plural Text”
3.3. Doctorow's Strategies in Constructing His Text
3.3.1Doctorow's Narrative Technique
3.3.2 The Employment of Ragtime Music
3.4 Doctorow's Texts Impelling the Consciousness of Our Time
3.4.1 The Consciousness of Our History
3.4.2 The Consciousness of Our Morality
Chapter 4 The Textuality of Doctorow's History
4.1. The Textuality of History
4.1.1 Louis A. Montrose: "The Textuality of Histories"
4.1.2 History in Traditional Historical Text and in Postmodernist Text
4.2 The Fictional History in Doctorow's Ragtime
4.2.1Doctorow's History
4.2.2 From History to Fiction and From Fiction to History
4.3 Doctorow's Strategies in Constructing Fictional History in Ragtime
4.3.1 Intertextuality
4.3.2 Replication—“To Replicate Itself Endlessly”
4.4 The Foreboding and Coincidence of New Historicism
Conclusion
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