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All About Ainsley
Erin Smith
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R696
Discovery Miles 6 960
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Derby Horse (Paperback)
Mara Dabrishus; Edited by Erin Smith
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R406
Discovery Miles 4 060
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All Heart (Paperback)
Mara Dabrishus; Edited by Erin Smith
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R420
Discovery Miles 4 200
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In the 1920s a distinctively American detective fiction emerged
from the pages of pulp magazines. The \u201chard-boiled\u201d
stories published in Black Mask, Dime Detective, Detective Fiction
Weekly, and Clues featured a new kind of hero and soon challenged
the popularity of the British mysteries that held readers in thrall
on both sides of the Atlantic. In Hard-Boiled Erin A. Smith
examines the culture that produced and supported this form of
detective story through the 1940s. Relying on pulp magazine
advertising, the memoirs of writers and publishers, Depression-era
studies of adult reading habits, social and labor history, Smith
offers an innovative account of how these popular stories were
generated and read. She shows that although the work of pulp
fiction authors like Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Erle
Stanley Gardner have become \u201cclassics\u201d of popular
culture, the hard-boiled genre was dominated by hack writers paid
by the word, not self-styled artists. Pulp magazine editors and
writers emphasized a gritty realism in the new genre. Unlike the
highly rational and respectable British protagonists (Miss Marple
and Hercule Poirot, for instance), tough-talking American private
eyes relied as much on their fists as their brains as they made
their way through tangled plotlines. Casting working-class readers
of pulp fiction as \u201cpoachers,\u201d Smith argues that they
understood these stories as parables about Taylorism, work, and
manhood; as guides to navigating consumer culture; as sites for
managing anxieties about working women. Engaged in re-creating
white, male privilege for the modern, heterosocial world, pulp
detective fiction shaped readers into consumers by selling them
what they wanted to hear - stories about manly artisan-heroes who
resisted encroaching commodity culture and the female consumers who
came with it. Commenting on the genre\u2019s staying power, Smith
considers contemporary detective fiction by women, minority, and
gay and lesbian writers.
The "Student Study Guide/Solutions Manual," prepared by Erin Smith
Berk and Janice Gorzynski Smith, begins each chapter with a
detailed chapter review that is organized around chapter goals and
key concepts. The Problem Solving section provides a number of
examples for solving each type of problem essential to that
chapter. The Self-Test section of each chapter quizzes on chapter
highlights, with answers provided. Finally, each chapter ends with
the solutions to all in-chapter problems, as well as the solutions
to all odd-numbered end-of-chapter problems.
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