J. Kennet van Dover

The Critical Response to Raymond Chandler

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Produktbeschreibung

In the past decade, Raymond Chandler has come to be recognized as a major mid-century American novelist. Though an immensely popular writer of mysteries, Chandler is now receiving the serious attention of scholars. He is seen as a writer with a deliberate approach toward the creation of fictions that present a significant criticism of American life. The essays and reviews in this volume trace the response to Chandler's work from 1944 to the present. This volume traces the changing reception of Chandler's works. It includes essays and reviews from 1944 to the present. These pieces treat various aspects of Chandler's art, such as his writing style, the nature of the hard-boiled detective hero, the relation of Chandler to his contemporaries, Los Angeles as the setting for his fiction, studies of individual novels, and analyses of films of Chandler's works. An introductory chapter provides a context for understanding Chandler as a writer, and the bibliography at the end of the volume demonstrates the growing amount of attention his novels are receiving.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9780313279485
• ISBN-10: 0313279489
• Artikelnr.: 21084751

Autorenporträt

J. K. VAN DOVER is Professor of English at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. He has published books on William Kennedy, Daniel Defoe, Erle Stanley Gardner, Ian Fleming, and others.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword by Cameron Northouse Acknowledgments Chronology
Introduction by J. K. Van Dover Chandler and the Reviewers: American and
English Observations on a P.I.'s Progress, 1939-1964 by J. K. Van Dover A
Cato of the Cruelties by R. W. Flint Philip Marlowe Speaking by R. W. Lid
On Raymond Chandler by Fredric Jameson From Raymond Chandler and an
American Genre by E. M. Beekman The Complex Art of Raymond Chandler by
George N. Dove Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles by Tom S. Reck Rats Behind
The Wainscoting: Politics, Convention, and Chandler's The Big Sleep by
Peter J. Rabinowitz From Aggressive Reading: Detective Fiction and
Realistic Narrative by James Guetti Howard Hawks's The Big Sleep: A
Paradigm for the Postwar American Family by Brian Gallagher Chivalry and
Modernity in Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep by Ernest Fontana The
Function of Simile in Raymond Chandler's Novels by Stephen L. Tanner The
Mind of the Hardboiled: Ross Macdonald and the Roles of Criticism by T. R.
Steiner Raymond Chandler and the Business of Literature by Johanna M. Smith
Narrative Symmetries in Farewell, My Lovely by J. K. Van Dover Bibliography
Index