Cracking the hard-boiled detective : a critical history from the 1920s to the present / Lewis D. Moore.
"This critical study analyzes how the hard-boiled detective character has developed, from literary antecedents through the early 21st century. It focuses on three main periods: the Early (roughly 1927-1955), during which the character was defined by such writers as Carroll John Daly, Dashiell H...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2006], ©2006. |
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| Summary: | "This critical study analyzes how the hard-boiled detective character has developed, from literary antecedents through the early 21st century. It focuses on three main periods: the Early (roughly 1927-1955), during which the character was defined by such writers as Carroll John Daly, Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler; the Transitional, evident by 1964 in the works of John D. MacDonald and Michael Collins, and continuing to around 1977; and the Modern, since the late 1970s, during which such writers as Loren D. Estleman, Liza Cody, Sara Paretsky, Sue Grafton and many others have expanded the genre and the detective character. Themes such as violence, love and sexuality, friendship, space and place, and work are examined throughout the text."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 298 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-287) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0786425814 (softcover : alk. paper) |
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