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Abstract The novel Loon Lake by American postmodernist left-wing writer E. L. Doctorow, is a post¬modernist hybridized narrative text, in which Doctorow applies the bildungsroman of artists to represent that a typical poor boy realizes his fantasy to have another pair of superior parents and become an heir of a supramaximal capitalist enterprise; applies a proletarian bildungsroman to re¬veal that collusion is a component part of an individual’s adaptive process in the capitalist soci¬ety; and applies a political novel, the ironic criticism of American capitalism to expose that the power and wealth are not realized and maintained through capacity and hard-working but through
brutality and thus in which politics and artistic expression writing are constructed into an organic whole. The novel Loon Lake exquisitely demonstrates pluralistic characteristics of postmodern in¬dustrial society presented by Doctorow with his masterly use of hybridized narrative text.
Key words: Doctorow; Loon Lake; bildungsroman of artists; proletarian bildungsroman; politi¬cal novel
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