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Michael KreylingPublication Details
BookUniversity of South Carolina Press2005Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS3525.I486 Z75 2005 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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In his examination of Ross Macdonald?s eighteen detective novels, Michael Kreyling suggests that this widely read author elevated a popular genre from the plateau reached by Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler to a level of sophistication yet to be surpassed. Kreyling moves beyond the usual critical focus on the internal structure of the works?the disclosure and hiding of clues, for example?to provide a fuller assessment of why Macdonald?s writings deserve the same critical attention afforded serious novels. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
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- Constants
- An unhappy childhood is practically indispensable
- Literary fathers and Archer’s debut : The moving target (1949)
- The rock and the hard place : Chandler and Hammett
- Freud and Archer : the detective as analyst
- I wish they all could be California girls : Archer in the 1960s
- Love and ruin : The underground man, Sleeping beauty, The blue hammer
- The genre after Macdonald
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- 1570035776
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