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A History of American Crime Fiction

2017-10-26 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2017-10-26
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Book Synopsis A History of American Crime Fiction by : Chris Raczkowski

Download or read book A History of American Crime Fiction written by Chris Raczkowski. This book was released on 2017-10-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of American Crime Fiction places crime fiction within a context of aesthetic practices and experiments, intellectual concerns, and historical debates generally reserved for canonical literary history. Toward that end, the book is divided into sections that reflect the periods that commonly organize American literary history, with chapters highlighting crime fiction's reciprocal relationships with early American literature, romanticism, realism, modernism and postmodernism. It surveys everything from 17th-century execution sermons, the detective fiction of Harriet Spofford and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, to the films of David Lynch, HBO's The Sopranos, and the podcast Serial, while engaging a wide variety of critical methods. As a result, this book expands crime fiction's significance beyond the boundaries of popular genres and explores the symbiosis between crime fiction and canonical literature that sustains and energizes both.

Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s

2018-10-02 Fiction
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Release : 2018-10-02
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s by : Leslie S Klinger

Download or read book Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s written by Leslie S Klinger. This book was released on 2018-10-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic American Crime Writing of the 1920s—including House Without a Key, The Benson Murder Case, The Tower Treasure, The Roman Hat Mystery, The Tower Treasure, and Little Caesar—offers some of the very best of that decade’s writing. Earl Derr Biggers wrote about Charlie Chan, a Chinese-American detective, at a time when racism was rampant. S. S. Van Dine invented Philo Vance, an effete, rich amateur psychologist who flourished while America danced and the stock market rose. Edwin Stratemeyer, a man of mystery himself, singlehandedly created the juvenile mystery, with the beloved Hardy Boys series. The quintessential American detective Ellery Queen leapt onto the stage, to remain popular for fifty years. W. R. Burnett, created the indelible character of Rico, the first gangster antihero. Each of the five novels included is presented in its original published form, with extensive historical and cultural annotations and illustrations added by Edgar-winning editor Leslie S. Klinger, allowing the reader to experience the story to its fullest. Klinger's detailed foreword gives an overview of the history of American crime writing from its beginnings in the early years of America to the twentieth century.

The Cambridge Companion to American Crime Fiction

2010-07-08 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2010-07-08
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to American Crime Fiction by : Catherine Ross Nickerson

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to American Crime Fiction written by Catherine Ross Nickerson. This book was released on 2010-07-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion examines the range of American crime fiction from execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programmes like The Sopranos.

Latin American Detectives against Power

2022-04-06 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2022-04-06
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Book Synopsis Latin American Detectives against Power by : Fabricio Tocco

Download or read book Latin American Detectives against Power written by Fabricio Tocco. This book was released on 2022-04-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how Latin American detective stories portray individualism and the state through the figures of the private eye and the police. Fabricio Tocco argues that these portrayals constitute a far more radical critique than the one developed by the Anglo-American canon, culminating in a transnational “poetics of failure” rooted in dissatisfaction with the neoliberal state.

Neon Noir

1999 Education
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Release : 1999
Genre : Education
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Book Synopsis Neon Noir by : Woody Haut

Download or read book Neon Noir written by Woody Haut. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neon Noir, the follow-up to Woody Haut's highly regarded Pulp Culture, brings the story of American crime fiction and film uptodate. From the Kennedy assassination to the Vietnam War and Watergate, through Reaganomics to Irangate and Whitewater, Neon Noir is a roller-coaster ride through the American nightmare. Haut investigates the dark side of America through the work of crime writers such as James Ellroy, Elmore Leonard, Walter Mosley, James Lee Burke, Lawrence Block, James Sallis, George Pelecanos, Charles Willeford, Jerome Charyn, Sara Paretsky, Vicki Hendricks, KC Constantine, George V Higgins and James Crumley. Mapping the fissures and scars of America's psychogeography, its morally ambiguous shadowlands, Neon Noir also considers the difference between past and present hardboilers, the impact of war and journalism on noirists, the portrayal of cities, the aesthetics of crime fiction, and the changing relationship between the books and the films. Like Pulp Culture, Neon Noir is set to become the reference book on its subject.

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