| Description |
viii, 336 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 319-329. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Design of this book -- 1. Study of literary formulas -- 2. Notes toward a typology of literary formulas -- 3. Mythology of crime and its formulaic embodiments -- 4. Formula of the classical detective story -- 5. Art of the classical detective story -- 6. Hard-boiled detective story -- 7. Hammett, Chandler, and Spillane -- 8. Western: a look at the evolution of a formula -- 9. Best-selling social melodrama. |
| Subject |
Fiction -- Technique.
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Fiction -- Technique. |
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Fiction -- History and criticism.
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Fiction. |
| ISBN |
0226098664 : $15.00 |
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9780226098661 |
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