| Description |
xxxix, 247 pages ; 22 cm. |
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Crosscurrents/modern critiques
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Crosscurrents/modern critiques.
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| Contents |
Introduction / David Madden -- The way out : some life-style sources of the tough guy and the proletarian horo / Kingley Widmer -- Labels / Benjamin Appel -- The tough Hemingway and his hard-boiled children / Sheldon Norman Grebstein -- Focus on "To Have and Have Not" : "To Have Not : Tough Luck" / Philip Young -- The "Black Mask" school / Philip Young -- The poetics of the private-eye : "The Novels of Dashiell Hammett" / Robert I. Edenbaum -- Focus on "The Maltese Falcon" : "The Metaphysical Falcon" / Irving Malin -- Man under sentence of death : "The Novels of James M. Cain" / Joyce Carol Oates -- Focus on "Appointment in Samarra" : "The Importance of Knowing What You Are Talking About" / Matthew J. Bruccoli -- Horace McCoy's objective lyricism / Thomas Sturak -- Focus on "You Play the Black and the Red Comes Up" : "No Bet" / E. R. Hagemann -- Raymond Chandler : "From Bloomsbury to the Jungle - and Beyond" / Herbert Ruhm -- The gangster novel : "The Urban Pastoral" / George Grella -- The Hollywood novel : "The American Dream Cheat" / Carolyn See -- Focus on three descendents : "Nightmare Alley" : "Geeks, Cons, Tips, and Marks / Charles Shapiro -- "The Damned" : "Good Intentions : The Tough Guy as Hero and Villain / Charles Alva Hoyt -- "The Killer Inside Me" :"Fear, Purgation, and the Sophoclean Light" / R. V. Cassill. |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Violence in literature.
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Violence in literature. |
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Detective and mystery stories, American -- History and criticism.
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Detective and mystery stories, American. |
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