American Crime Fiction: A Cultural History of Nobrow Literature as Art 2016 Edition Contributor(s): Swirski, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 3319301071 ISBN-13: 9783319301075 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $94.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century - Literary Criticism | American - General |
Dewey: 809 |
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6" W x 8.68" (0.90 lbs) 222 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Peter Swirski looks at American crime fiction as an artform that expresses and reflects the social and aesthetic values of its authors and readers. As such he documents the manifold ways in which such authorship and readership are a matter of informed literary choice and not of cultural brainwashing or declining literary standards. Asking, in effect, a series of questions about the nature of genre fiction as art, successive chapters look at American crime writers whose careers throw light on the hazards and rewards of nobrow traffic between popular forms and highbrow aesthetics: Dashiell Hammett, John Grisham, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Chandler, Ed McBain, Nelson DeMille, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. |