《拉格泰姆时代》以一战前的美国社会为背景,此时移民涌入,科技发展,新事物层出不穷,一片欣欣向荣。然而,在这繁荣景象之下却是纷叠的社会危机———阶级矛盾、劳资纠纷、种族争端,战争的阴影也步步逼近。E.L.多克特罗运用断裂式叙述话语、蒙太奇、互文性等后现代主义叙事手法真实再现了当时的社会风貌,甚至对人们的日常起居都一丝不苟地进行描述,并将当时颇为流行的拉格泰 The “Ragtime” took the background of American society before the First World War, when influx of immigrants, development of science and technology, new things after another, a thriving. However, under this prosperous scene, there are many social crises - class conflicts, labor disputes, ethnic disputes and the shadow of war. EL’s use of postmodernist narrative techniques such as fractal narrative discourse, montage, and intertextuality truly reproduces the social outlook at that time, and even gives a meticulous account of people’s daily routine, and at the time, Ge Tai