Contemporary metafictions are characterized by several dominant features that interrogate the established norms and thus make the readers think over the unquestioned realities. E. L. Doctorow, an American postmodern novelist uses parody as a literary tool to question the rigid framework of American literary society. By incorporating intertextuality, Doctorow creates skepticism over the autonomous status of literary texts. Being a significant feature of postmodernism, intertextuality unravels the fact that each text is an inevitable composition of several other texts. This paper demonstrates how efficiently Doctorow incorporates intertextual parody in Ragtime and Loon Lake.