A Study On The Writing Of New York City In E.L.Doctorow’s Fictions

Grid as the key coordinate system of New York City, in New York City literature research is rarely discussed. New York as the birth place of E.L.Doctorow,is the main literature Doctorow lifeblood, study of Doctorow city literature often mentioned, but delve into the grid on his New York City literature research. Grid nourish and build his New York City writing, to generate a new way to watch the city, the important theme of modern urban space imagery "collectors", and finally influences the construction of his narrative text. Hence it’s worth discussing thoroughly.Firstly,this paper analyses the grid for the construction of New York City, then analysis the grid is the key to read the New York City writing Doctorow, grid planning in New York, has affected the Doctorow watch way in New York, generated a new watch city visual mechanism, this visual mechanism determines the urban experience of Doctorow performance for double fracture of time and space.Papers in the second part through Doctorow novels’ "collectors" images further present the complexity of the urban experience. Collectors existence proves that the decline of modern city public space, visual nomadism has gradually give way to the private sector collection activities, and collectors also Doctorow metaphor of himself as a novelist writing activities, writing is a grasp of the differences of history. Collectors to reflect the city as the stage of modernity, never reborn in self disintegration, inevitably will be present for the construction of the ruins.At last, this paper discuss the aesthetic characters of Doctorows’fictions, its a aesthetics of ruins. Not only refers to the concept of the ruins in Doctorow writing of New York City, New York excessive growth will substance category on the buildings and destroyed anytime and anywhere in ruin.