Critical Response to Raymond Chandler

Name: Critical Response to Raymond Chandler
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ISBN: 9780313279485

ISBN-10: 0313279489

ISBN-13: 9780313279485

Edition: 1995

Authors: J. Kennet Van Dover

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Raymond Chandler is perhaps one of the best known and widely read American mystery writers of this century. Though he practiced in a popular genre and was once dismissed as a serious writer, his works are now receiving the attention of scholars. Chandler is now recognized as a major mid-century American novelist and as an author with a deliberate approach toward the creation of fictions that present a significant criticism of American life. 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…

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List price: $108.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Publication date: 2/22/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English



Series Foreword



Acknowledgments


Chronology


Introduction



Chandler and the Reviewers: American and English Observations on a P.I.'s Progress, 1939-1964



A Cato of the Cruelties by R. W. Flint Philip Marlowe Speaking



On Raymond Chandler



From Raymond Chandler and an American Genre



The Complex Art of Raymond Chandler



Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles



The Wainscoting: Politics, Convention, and Chandler's


The Big Sleep



From Aggressive Reading: Detective Fiction and Realistic Narrative



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



The Mind of the Hardboiled: Ross Macdonald and the Roles of Criticism



Raymond Chandler and the Business of Literature



Narrative Symmetries in Farewell, My Lovely



Bibliography


Index