American crime fiction : a cultural history of Nobrow literature as art / Peter Swirski.

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American crime fiction : a cultural history of Nobrow literature as art / Peter Swirski.

9783319301082 (electronic book)
331930108X (electronic book)
9783319301075
3319301071

Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

English

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809.04

This book looks at American crime fiction as an artform that expresses and reflects the social and aesthetic values of its authors and readers. As such it 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.

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