The Critical Response to Raymond Chandler

J. Kennet Van Dover (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

1995
Greenwood Press (Verlag)
9780313279485 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	22.2.1995
Reihe/Serie	Critical Responses in Arts and Letters
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-13	9780313279485 / 9780313279485
Zustand	Neuware