Talk:Ragtime (novel)

message: The Nebula award is given to sci-fi/fantasy literature. . .this book is far from either genre. Is this a mistake?
An earlier version of the article had some of the plot points wrong. I wonder if someone was basing what they wrote on an adaptation, rather than the novel? And this being a talk page, I'll add a little personal opinion: read this novel, it is brilliant and a great read! :-) Cheers, -- Infrogmation 19:13, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nebula award? 

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:08, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:RagtimeDoctrorowHardcover.jpg

message: I added the fact that the novel is based on the early Nineteenth century German classic "Michael Kohlhaas" by Heinrich von Kleist. I don't know how to create the links between this page and the relevant "Heinrich von Kleist" and "Michael Kohlhaas" Wikipedia references... Please assist me.
Thanks,
M.H. Lemay  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.126.87.85 (talk) 00:32, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: With regard to the plagiarism claim in this section: There is a long literary history of artists borrowing from other stories. This is not plagiarism. Text was not lifted word-for-word, and Doctorow acknowledges the Kleist influence. Unless anyone objects, I'm going to remove the weasely plagiarism claim. ThreeOfCups (talk) 03:41, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I have some doubt about the statment that "it is a matter of opinion among critics whether this constitutes literary adaptation or plagiarism." The only source for this is a journalist commenting approvingly on his grandfather's opinion, who is unnamed and therefore cannot be identified as a literary critic or literaty historian - this is just non-expert opinion, no more valuable than a blog post about a book someone's discussed with their family The problem is that there is no plagiarism here: plagiarism is unacknowledged verbatim copying, precisely what ELD doesn't do. Unless someone can find a comparable statment from a recognized literary critic, this sentence should at best stop at "Doctorow". In fact it's redundant: Kohlhass -> Coalhouse is already a full acknowledgement, though the ref. to ELD's interview could be moved to the previous sentence! --Pfold (talk) 15:05, 20 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference to the Kleist's story 

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thread_title:  Copyright problem removed