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American Crime Fiction - A Cultural History of Nobrow Literature as Art (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016) Loot Price: R2,156
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American Crime Fiction - A Cultural History of Nobrow Literature as Art (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016): Peter Swirski

American Crime Fiction - A Cultural History of Nobrow Literature as Art (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)

Peter Swirski

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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.

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Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin: Switzerland
Release date: March 2018
First published: 2016
Authors: Peter Swirski
Dimensions: 210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 222
Edition: 1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13: 978-3-319-79031-2
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
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LSN: 3-319-79031-5
Barcode: 9783319790312

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