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American Crime Fiction: A Cultural History of Nobrow Literature as Art

By Peter Swirski (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2016
ISBN
978-3-319-30107-5, 978-3-319-30108-2
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-30108-2
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4318019 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
XIII, 222\235
Time added
2016-11-20 09:00:00
Twentieth-Century Literature;North American Litera

Description

Peter Swirski looks at American crime fiction as an artform that expresses and reflects the social and aesthetic values of its authors and readers. As such he documents the manifold ways in which such authorship and readership are a matter of informed literary choice and not of cultural brainwashing or declining literary standards. Asking, in effect, a series of questions about the nature of genre fiction as art, successive chapters look at American crime writers whose careers throw light on the hazards and rewards of nobrow traffic between popular forms and highbrow aesthetics: Dashiell Hammett, John Grisham, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Chandler, Ed McBain, Nelson DeMille, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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