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Dashiell Hammett : a descriptive bibliography
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ISBN: 0822933942 Year: 1979 Volume: *8 Publisher: Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh Press

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Crime fiction from Poe to the present
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ISBN: 074630854X Year: 1998 Publisher: Plymouth : Northcote House,

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“Polar noir”: Reading African-American Detective Fiction
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ISBN: 2869065132 2869062141 Year: 2017 Publisher: Tours : Presses universitaires François-Rabelais,

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La curiosité et le désir de cerner les spécificités d'un genre que les Afro-Américains se sont approprié à l'aube du 20e siècle, telles sont les intentions de recherche animant le présent volume. Beaucoup lu par tous les publics (Chester Himes connut d'abord le succès en France), le polar afro-américain reste relativement peu étudié en dépit d'une production très abondante et diverse depuis les années soixante. Diverse parce qu'elle a essaimé hors de la côte Est, et parce que les romancières sont venues l'enrichir. Le vécu racial, comme nous le disent BarbaraNeely, Paula Woods et Gar Haywood est au cœur de ce genre populaire : la mémoire noire, les lieux noirs et les environnements humains qui construisent l'être - d'où une incursion en Caraïbe francophone. Curiosity and the desire to grasp the specificity of an abundantly read African American genre born as the 20th century was beginning are the research intentions that inspire this volume. Indeed, only recently has African-American detective fiction drawn the attention of scholars in spite of its very diverse blossoming since the 1960s. Diverse, because it has moved out of its birth place, East coast cities, and because female novelists have contributed their own production. At the heart of this popular genre, as novelists BarbaraNeely, Paula Woods and Gar Haywood tell us, is black existence: black memory, black living places and the human environments that build the individual - hence a détour to the French Caribbean.


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Formes et structures génériques du roman policier
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ISBN: 2840500574 Year: 1996 Publisher: Paris : Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne,

Chester Himes : a critical appraisal
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ISBN: 0826201903 Year: 1976 Publisher: Columbia : University of Missouri press,

Creatures of darkness : Raymond Chandler, detective fiction, and film noir
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ISBN: 0813190428 0813147905 0813160014 9780813147901 0813121744 9780813121741 9780813190426 9780813127002 0813127009 9780813160016 Year: 2000 Publisher: Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky,

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More than any other writer, Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) is responsible for raising detective stories from the level of pulp fiction to literature. Chandler's hard-boiled private eye Philip Marlowe set the standard for rough, brooding heroes who managed to maintain a strong sense of moral conviction despite a cruel and indifferent world. Chandler's seven novels, including The Big Sleep (1939) and The Long Goodbye (1953), with their pessimism and grim realism, had a direct influence on the emergence of film noir. Chandler worked to give his crime novels the flavor of his adopted city, Los Angel

Beams falling : the art of Dashiell Hammett
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ISBN: 0879721391 0879721405 9780879721404 9780879721398 Year: 1980 Publisher: Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green University Popular Press,

Murdering masculinities : fantasies of gender and violence in the American crime novel
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ISBN: 0814726909 0814726917 0814728715 0814728189 0585424918 Year: 2000 Publisher: New York : New York University Press,

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Though American crime novels are often derided for containing misogynistic attitudes and limiting ideas of masculinity, Greg Forter maintains that they are instead psychologically complex and sophisticated works that demand closer attention. Eschewing the synthetic methodologies of earlier work on crime fiction, Murdering Masculinities argues that the crime novel does not provide a consolidated and stable notion of masculinity. Rather, it demands that male readers take responsibility for the desires they project on to these novels. Forter examines the narrative strategies of five novels--Hamme

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