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John Grisham : a critical companion
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ISBN: 0313296375 Year: 1997 Publisher: Westport ; London : Greenwood press,

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The Cambridge companion to American crime fiction
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ISBN: 9780521136068 9780511762840 9780521199377 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge New York Melbourne : Cambridge University Press,

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From the execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programs like The Wire and The Sopranos, crime writing has played an important role in American culture. Its ability to register fear, desire and anxiety has made it a popular genre with a wide audience. These new essays, written for students as well as readers of crime fiction, demonstrate the very best in contemporary scholarship and challenge long-established notions of the development of the detective novel. Each chapter covers a sub-genre, from 'true crime' to hard-boiled novels, illustrating the ways in which 'popular' and 'high' literary genres influence and shape each other. With a chronology and guide to further reading, the Companion is a helpful guide for students of American literature and readers of crime fiction.

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

Men alone : masculinity, individualism, and hard-boiled fiction
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ISBN: 9042001186 9004490000 Year: 1997 Volume: 111 Publisher: Amsterdam : Rodopi,

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ISBN: 0520208358 9780520208353 Year: 1997 Publisher: Berkeley (CA) : University of California 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

Gumshoe America : hard-boiled crime fiction and the rise and fall of new deal liberalism
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ISBN: 0822325942 0822325802 9786612903496 1282903497 0822380560 9780822380566 9781282903494 661290349X Year: 2000 Publisher: Durham, NC : Duke University Press,


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Feminism in women's detective fiction
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ISBN: 0802069541 0802005195 144262308X 9781442623088 9780802005199 9780802069542 1442655631 Year: 1995 Publisher: Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press,

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Names such as Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, and Sam Spade are perhaps better known than the names of the authors who created them. The woman detective has also had worldwide appeal; yet, with the exception of Christie's Miss Marple, the names of female detectives and their authors have only recently gained wide attention through the popularity of Marcia Muller, Sue Grafton, and Sara Paretsky.The essays in this collection grapple with a wide range of issues important to the female sleuth - the most important, perhaps, being the oft-heard challenge to her suitability for the job. Not surprisingly, gender issues are the main focus of all the essays; indeed, in detective novels with a woman protagonist, these issues are often right at the surface.Some of the papers see the female sleuth as an important force in popular fiction, but many also challenge the notion that the woman detective is a positive model for feminists. They argue that fictional female sleuths have lost the `otherness' that a feminine approach to the genre should encourage. Collectively, the essays also reveal the differences between British and American perspectives on the woman detective.


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Thrillers : genesis and structure of a popular genre
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ISBN: 0713161426 0713161434 9780713161427 Year: 1978 Publisher: London : Edward Arnold,

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crime fiction --- Sociology of literature --- English literature --- Detective and mystery stories, English --- Detective and mystery stories, American --- Spy stories, English --- Roman policier anglais --- Roman policier américain --- Roman d'espionnage anglais --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Popular literature --- Literary form --- 82-312.4 --- Detectiveroman. Misdaadroman --- -Detective and mystery stories, American --- -Spy stories, English --- -Literary form --- -Literature, Popular --- Books and reading --- Popular culture --- Form, Literary --- Forms, Literary --- Forms of literature --- Genre (Literature) --- Genre, Literary --- Genres, Literary --- Genres of literature --- Literary forms --- Literary genetics --- Literary genres --- Literary types (Genres) --- Literature --- English spy stories --- English fiction --- American detective stories --- American mystery stories --- Crime stories, American --- American fiction --- English detective stories --- English mystery stories --- -Detectiveroman. Misdaadroman --- 82-312.4 Detectiveroman. Misdaadroman --- -Form, Literary --- Literature, Popular --- Roman policier américain --- Espionage in literature --- Spies in literature --- Popular literature - History and criticism --- Detective and mystery stories, English - History and criticism --- Detective and mystery stories, American - History and criticism --- Spy stories, English - History and criticism --- SUSPENSE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- LITTERATURE D'EPOUVANTE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE

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