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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: The Design of This Book | |
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| The Study of Literary Formulas Formulas, Genres, and Archetypes The Artistic Characteristics of Formula Literature Formulas and Culture | |
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| Notes toward a Typology of Literary | |
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| Formulas Adventure Romance Mystery | |
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| Melodrama Alien Beings or States | |
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| The Mythology of Crime and Its Formulaic Embodiments | |
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| The Godfatherand the Literature of Crime | |
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| Elements of the New Formula | |
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| The Cultural Function of Popular Crime Formulas | |
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| The Formula of the Classical Detective | |
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| Story Patterns of the Formula Cultural | |
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| Background of the Formula | |
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| The Art of the Classical Detective | |
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| Story Central Artistic Problems of the Genre | |
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| Artistic Failures and Successes: Christie and Sayers | |
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| The Art of Simenon Detective Stories and Detection as an Element in Other | |
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| Literary Genres | |
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| The Future of the Classical Detective Story | |
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| The Hard-Boiled Detective Story Hard-boiled and Classical | |
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| Detective Stories Patterns of the Formula | |
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| Cultural Backgrounds of the Formula | |
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| Hammett, Chandler, and Spillane | |
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| The Western: A Look at the Evolution of a Formula Cooper and the Beginnings of the Western | |
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| Formula Nick of the Woodsand the | |
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| Wister's Virginian and the Modern Western | |
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| The Romantic Western of the 1920s | |
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| The Classic Western: John Ford and Others | |
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| The Jewish Cowboy, the Black Avenger, and the Return of the Vanishing | |
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| American: Current Trends in the Formula | |
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| The Best-Selling Social Melodrama | |
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| The Social Melodrama | |
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| The Aesthetics of Social Melodrama | |
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| The Evolution of Social Melodrama Irving Wallace | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes Bibliographical | |
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| Notes Index | |